Arts
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.
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
