Artillery Row
Weeds in the garden
A brilliant new work walks the thorny path of motherhood
Britain, 2049
You’ll own nothing, and you won’t be particularly happy about it
Joyous adventures in the absurd
A new performance of a Janacek opera takes one to the moon and back
The magical LGBTQ+ myth factory
The LGBTQ+ lobby is making up “scientific” facts to win arguments
The Welsh way of woke
Wales has an established church again: the religion of “anti-racism”
Mansplaining womanhood
What is a woman? What are they for? Do they have souls? Men may never know, as that might involve asking a woman her opinion
Germany in the Baroque Age
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the cultural achievements of the Baroque Age in the German states
How to end the war in Ukraine
Neither territorial concessions nor unrealistic dreams of toppling Putin can secure lasting peace
Grace in the face of prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time
Herbert Butterfield: A prophet for our age?
The Whig interpretation of history explains much that is malignant in modern progressivism
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Diversity is not our strength
The Khan Review reveals a society needlessly splintered along ethno-religious lines
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Turning a blind eye to a tilted playing field
Not only is it a page-turner, it’s also an essential manual for defending women’s sport
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
