Columns
The glories of front gardens
People who pave over gardens have hearts of stone
We can Handel more
Handel: Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline &c. (Prospero)
Why did India ban this film?
“Satluj” is an important film and its suppression is unjust
Cringing at the cliffedge
How British satire, and British politics, became painfully unfunny
Why ministers fail
Even the more effective politicians do not have time to achieve anything
Rakes, ruin and refinement
Peter Glanz’s Savage House captures the splendour, squalor and social ambition of Georgian Britain with remarkable historical confidence
The revolution will be half-empty
Britain’s answer to America’s biggest conservative gathering offered empty seats, familiar grievances and a vision of the country that exists largely in the imagination.
Faith in fakes
Baudrillard warned that politics would become a world of signs detached from reality. Manchesterism suggests he was right
How to travel in Europe
For the best in Europe, learn how to travel like a rich native
Settlement disagreements
Shabana Mahmood and the Labour Party are absolutely hopeless on immigration
