Artillery Row
Belgian light amid the gloom
The work of two fine artists is gaining belated and well-deserved recognition
Of men and birds
John Self reviews Enter The Aardvark by Jessica Anthony
The beauty of Jeremy Brett
Why any self-respecting heterosexual male needs a man-crush
A new student experience
Covid-19 has left universities in crisis – and provided an opportunity to reform a bloated system
Love and death in Vienna
Spanish flu killed Schiele and Klimt. Their art sensed the brevity of life and the doom of their society
Can Christopher Nolan save the cinema-going experience?
It is not just Nolan’s reputation that is on the line if Tenet is released in July
Protocol questions
Is Ulster how May’s sometime ministers will still get BRINO for Great Britain too?
Neofeudalism and its new legitimisers
Today’s oligarchs depend on a modern, overwhelmingly liberal clerisy for legitimacy
Farewell Hybrid Parliament. Goodbye Scottish MPs?
MPs are to return to Westminster. But will Welsh, Scottish and Ulster MPs come?
My first Carr
A S H Smyth discovers a true English literary eccentric, born on this day in 1912
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
A Royal good time
Racing brings the country together in a convulsion of delirious democracy
Seller beware
Sotheby’s new fee structure favours the auctioneer
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
Beware of the K-Hype
The strange state of the States
A majority built on sand
Keir Starmer should not feel too triumphant — hard times lie ahead
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Will the next prime minister stand up for women’s rights?
Rhetorical progress has been made on gender issues — but will it affect policy?
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
