Berets
Lactose intolerance
Stories of social progress are our mother’s, er, I mean, our parents’ milk
Bloody opposition
The Tories have left Britain in the hands of managers, judges and technocrats
Bedazzling
Nigel Farage takes centre stage and everyone else is sidelined
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
Murders for May
Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI
Was The Bible written by slaves?
A new book maintains that enslaved scribes and readers may have affected the shaping of Christian ideas
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
The triumph of the Classical
Modernism has failed and it is time to return to diligent study of the best of traditional architecture