Artillery Row

It’s a sad, sad situation

The bold standard

A sea of staring eyes

Overcrowded lectures are bad enough, but Zoom and masks are incompatible with learning

The curse of the tiny fridge

A tale of the overheated housing market and its secondary effects on life in the capital

London Nights (Capriccio)

Intelligent and well played though it is, Franziska Lee’s album of Londonoid piano pieces can’t make a bad sonata better

Poetry matters

When poetry is sold as nothing more inspiring than literary politics, is it any surprise the poetry shelves in Waterstones are so dusty?

Opiate for the leftists

How Wokeism tries (and succeeds) at filling a religion-shaped void within the American left’s psyche

Tough love

What modern families are missing

No one expects the EU Inquisition

The Digital Services Act would appoint “coordinators” with an army of “trusted flaggers” to police digital speech in every EU member state

Murders for early November

As the days quicken and the shadows lengthen, our thoughts turn naturally to murder

Losing face

How do you pick up your nephew if you can’t recognise anyone?