1920s
A Wodehousian pick-me-up
Noel Coward and Friends: A Marvellous Party (Signum Classics)
Jiving in the ruins
This dazzling album features young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin
G.K. Chesterton and the pandemic
The prince of paradox predicted the absurdities of Covid lockdowns
Smashed stereotypes or revisionist reveries?
Why judge prohibitionists by their words when we can judge them by their actions?
Joseph Roth’s golden twenties
When Hitler came to power, the bubble burst
Size isn’t necessarily substance
Gatsby aside, F. Scott Fitzgerald — the Jazz-Age chronicler — is dispensable
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
A night of spectacle and special effects
Stranger Things: The First Shadow designers aren’t afraid to raid the treasure trove
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
Why this new book will pass unnoticed
Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
