Appledore Festival
Are socially distanced festivals the future of entertainment?
Appledore book festival has paved the way for Covid-friendly entertainment in the UK
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
London’s lamps live on
Thanks to the dedication of the Gasketeers, a beautiful tradition has been saved
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
