Basil Fawlty
“Will you stop talking about the war!”
Are we watching a Stalinist show trial, with hitherto dissident figures loudly recanting any support for past regimes?
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
