Book Review
Deconstructing a giant of the screen
For a gay, Hegelian, terrorist-sympathising dialectician, Fassbinder was a rather conservative moviemaker
The rich and varied past of our islands
Romans, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Norwegians all made their marks
Wrestling with recovery
There is no binary between sickness and health
Back door diplomacy
A fine history of Operation Chiffon
The preserve of the forelock-tuggers
Modern Buildings in Britain offers an encyclopaedia of potential future losses
Gazing out of the abyss
How to live, in spite of everything
Don’t believe the hype
The use of author testimonials to sell books is a performative exercise in gilding the lily
Censorious sadism
We are never far away from abuse and ostracism
Taking the clown seriously
Jolyon Maugham’s prose is funny, but his ideas are dangerous
Old Man River
For centuries, the Po has been the lifeblood of Northern Italy
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Wragg must go
He should resign or be fired
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
British defence must be renewed
War may not be imminent but Britain must still be secure
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
Sheikh up the Telegraph
We are fortunate that the UAE still wishes to invest in so unstable a country
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
