From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
Now then, now then
Should there be a new drama about Jimmy Savile?
Prudes against nudes
Feminist protests put a puritanical limit on the aesthetic quality of nudity
The Qing-quisition
Why did the Chinese bureaucracy succeed where the Catholic Church failed?
Nikolai Kapustin: 4th piano concerto (Capriccio)
Listening to Kapustin in 2021 is an act of nostalgia, a gesture of defiance to the dictates of fashion
Impossible things before breakfast
At the V&A the lines between madness and sanity are blurred
The perils of a speaker unchained
Bercow remains a grim warning about what a politician can still do in the chair, if he puts his mind to it
Television tome that needs tuning
The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth
Cooking the books
Few writers do justice to food, but the exceptions are glorious, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Redefining the rule of law
How much will MPs allow the Lord Chancellor to “rebalance” the constitution?
Smoked, but not fired
Trans activists at Sussex University have failed to get a female professor sacked