Artillery Row
The myth of Abbey Road
Abbey Road is less a cornerstone of the Beatles’ legend than its tombstone
Starting blocks
On the most important nomination stage in living memory
A flawed masterpiece that will dominate the field
Jeremy Black reviews David Abulafia’s The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
Bad manners
Did a Miami Art Gallery really sell a Rembrandt by accident?
The Hartlepool Declaration
How much impact will Farage’s retreat really have?
Ace or joker?
Sturgeon’s IndyRef gamble will play into Johnson’s hands
Party people
Corbyn knows the crowd-pleasers, but can he play to a wider audience?
Boris’s pudding without a theme
The Prime Minister made a muddled start to the election campaign
Small boats and big problems
The asylum issue is not going away, and Keir Starmer must face it soon
The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
Save us from the menopause mystique
“Menopausal” products make life more rather than less alienating
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
Weaponising weasel words
Gender theory is built on shallow euphemisms
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Is Beer the solution to all of life’s problems?
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — And How The World Lost its Mind. By Dan Davies
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
