Alice in Wonderland
Double-oh dear
How can Keir Starmer want a female James Bond when he can’t even define what a woman is?
Feminist fallacies: Equality benefits everyone
For feminism to be effective, women and girls need to demand our rights and not rely on men to hand them over
Impossible things before breakfast
At the V&A the lines between madness and sanity are blurred
Alice in blunderland
The V&A reckons Alice in Wonderland is a self-help manual in the sex-war rather than the daydreams of an old Oxford perv
Curious and curiouser
The afterlife of Lewis Carroll and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
London’s lamps live on
Thanks to the dedication of the Gasketeers, a beautiful tradition has been saved
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Are we suffering from generational sink?
How can the young find meaning and coherence in the future?
