Arts
Can the arts world learn to love the Tories?
As the Government injects 1.57bn into arts and culture, Alexander Larman considers the reactions from those in the industry
Art Attack
Does culture have a future in the post-lockdown world?
To the streets, via the Crush Bar
Robert Thicknesse on Opera
Mystery of the tainted cache
The Gurlitt affair looked as if it might be unpicked but it has proved intractable
Culture Shutdown
Can the arts survive coronavirus?
When the hype becomes the story
As Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light is released this week, Alexander Larman examines the over-excitement of high-profile releases
Adventures in La-La Land
Simon Callow reviews A Fate Worse than Hollywood by David Ambrose
Brief encounters and romps in the park
George Orwell pursued women with enthusiasm and varying degrees of success
Thoughts on the BBC: Reflections of a conservative historian
Jeremy Black ponders the place of the BBC
Has the National Theatre lost its way?
Alexander Larman considers Rufus Norris’s vision, and the future of the National Theatre.
The Scottish Government are being bad eggs
State institutions should not be encouraging a potentially painful and dangerous procedure
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
In defence of British theological education
Critics should be more optimistic about the new generation of ordinands
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Very naughty boys
Progressive parenting is all very well but sometimes misbehaviour needs a firmer approach
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
