Memoirs of a Microaggressor
Will Collins traces the aristocratic roots of the social justice warriors’ search for purity
Hard science is Priti difficult
Getting schooled by the facts of life
Culture club
A cherished hub of post-colonial Indian life in London is under threat of closure
Hungarian Serenade (Naxos)
The outstanding Offenburg String Trio play a gripping compilation of some of the most richly coloured and painfully consequential music you are ever likely to hear
How detached will Northern Ireland be from Brexit Britain?
Despite agreement in the Joint Committee, the disruption to trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland remains considerable
The history twisters
Nigel Jones warns that cinematic portrayals of historical events and figures could alter how we understand the past
Citizen of nowhere
Street names go woke, David Brent gets his wish, a historian quotes the past and The Vicar of Dibley takes the knee
John le Carré: a man who rose through the English class system as it was collapsing
John le Carré’s voice of old-fashioned English authority was one acquired through merit and bearing rather than birth
Trump’s Arendt and Arendt’s Trump
What would the German-born American political theorist Hannah Arendt make of Donald Trump if she were alive today?
The ghosts of Millbank
Once home to a nineteenth-century prison and London’s working classes, Gawain Towler explores the diverse architecture of Millbank
Whitehall takes the knee
When the MoD’s top man signs off with a BLM hashtag it’s a brave official who doesn’t get the message