Issue: July 2021
The calamitous course of history
Reading Doom might not save us, but it leaves us with a better appreciation of the complex politics of catastrophe
Jeremy Clarkson touches grass
How a cocky petrolhead found his soul
Socialism with Starmerite characteristics
The coming-out party of the Labour moderates had distinctly totalitarian vibes
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Trumped up charges
Trump’s guilty verdict is a catastrophe for American public life
This was a bad start to the week
More work for the BBC pronunciation unit
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
When breast isn’t best
A major maternity support group is at war with its trustees over its insistence that men should be enabled to breastfeed
Food for thought
Is it worth trapping the squirrels in my London garden?
Are we losing control of our collections?
We need trustees who actually believe in our museums
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
