Artillery Row
Afghanistan outsourced
Does Biden’s withdrawal include the thousands of mercenaries keeping it going?
What does it profit a man?
Aw it’s not for you, it’s more of a Shelbyville wallpaper
Nomadland takes the hat-trick
From digital streaming to diversity, Christopher Silvester rounds up the longest ever awards season
Priti Patel vs College of Policing
Is the Home Secretary seizing the political initiative before she’s forced to?
Entering the world of Weird fiction
The short stories of the long nineteenth century through the lens of Covid-19
Let’s stop wrapping our children in cotton wool
As questions are now being raised about the consequences of having shut playgrounds during lockdown, Joanna Williams says that we need to let kids be kids
The happy-clappy compassion mask
Ewa and Mateusz Dymek say cruelty is being masked by compassion
Power reveals
Maybe the real Boris was the classic Boris we met along the way?
Where are The Truly Great?
When it comes to how to live a meaningful life, the late left-wing poet Stephen Spender and Jordan Peterson exhibit a surprising amount in common
1942: Prokofiev – Copland – Poulenc (Delphian Records)
In the midst of war, three composers in different countries wrote sonatas which have now been collated in an album of pure escapism