Features

Poor countries are focused on food and fuel, not black-listing Moscow over the Ukraine war

Outside the Anglosphere, right-wing populism is a youth movement

The modern battle for women’s rights has now fallen prey to a self-defeating brand of power politics

The police’s dilatory response to a minor case exemplifies our national sclerosis

The rise of gender-neutral categories in the show business awards season

The bookish thrill of recognising the literary references of the pop artists you love

An attempt to boost school diversity has lowered standards

The clavichord makes up for a lack of grandeur with extraordinary expressiveness

All over Europe traditional figurative art, particularly from the nineteenth century, is being shunted to the corners of museums — and eventually removed from view

Radical composers are not out to smash the system