Books
A crisis of sex and money
The publishing economic model is broken whilst male authors are shunned
The SW1nderland gang
Sarah Vine’s memoir is a revealing and readable portrait of a Conservative political elite
Why GDP is no longer FFP (fit for purpose)
As GDP sends increasingly wonky signals, we are setting ourselves up to fail
Pretty as peacocks
The dandy lives in contradiction — investing the superficial with extravagant seriousness
Trapped in an identity crisis
The invention of identity is both a tragic and a universal story
The dead hand of decolonisation
A decade into the culture wars, the argument for decolonising museums has run out of steam
Keeping music alive during the Blitz
Pianist Myra Hess brought classical music to the rubble of wartime London
Brunelleschi’s egg
Demythologising a Renaissance genius
The past in pictures
Twelve manuscripts, read and re-read over eight centuries, can tell the heart of medieval Britain
Is woke really dead?
Those who are “woke” claim to be liberal, yet Doyle clearly illustrates they are the opposite
