Auction houses
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
The lockdown boom in an empty room
Auction houses have enjoyed a stellar pandemic, but could their online success prove a curse?
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
An unconvincing case against the UNRWA
It should take more evidence to strip the Palestinians of essential support
The Grand Migrant Hotel Rwanda
All are welcome at Kagame’s eccentric migrant hostelry, and don’t worry about the roving deathsquads: they’re harmless
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Sticky situation
Everyone’s Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe was different. All were revolting
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
