Assets
Stocking the trophy cabinet
Britain’s rich store of status symbols is a key driver of foreign investment
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
Steering clear of titfer tat
We now are seeing the first flowering of a head-dress renaissance
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
A lack of empathy goes to the hollowness at the heart of so many Kubrick movies
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism
How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation?
Murders for May
Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
