Artillery Row

Putin up with cancel culture

In the end, you have to ignore the haters. Or shoot them

The decaying master of shock

Damien Hirst’s jokes fall flat, but he still asks for his art to be taken seriously

In Darwin’s dreamland

A two-year stint on an island in Lake Victoria makes for a poignant and memorable memoir

No blueprint for Putin’s War

The lesson of the Soviet-Finnish War warns us against misunderstanding a war in progress

On the chopping block

Philip Pullman’s early resignation signals a setback for free speech in publishing

Modern technology meets the sixteenth century

For a limited time, the wonders of Lombardy are in the National Gallery

Men to the left of us, men to the right of us

With male allies like these, who needs male enemies?

The spectre of the new male feminist

Meet Nigel, the new type of feminist on the block

Genuine English opera

‘Peter Grimes’ labours under the weight of national anxieties

Modern-day Ealing comedy

A quintessentially English spirit of wry rebellion lives on in two new films