Alliance Party
Any colour you want as long as it’s a rainbow
The strange case of Ulster’s most intolerant sect, the Alliance party
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
