Brendan O’Neill
The Marxist cell in Number 10
Adam LeBor investigates the former communist cult that has found common cause with the prime minister and the Brexiteer Conservative right
The Lockdown Sceptics
The ‘liberators’ fighting back against the ‘ever-lockers’
The solipsistic siren
The sexual liberation and unrequited search of Nancy Cunard emblematises 1920s Paris
Is classical colonial?
Naive proposals to “decolonise” Western classical music risk losing the richness of its history
Literary festivals: sheer hell in a tent
To make people laugh for an hour is good business sense — but it says nothing about writing, or creativity, or art
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time (OUR)
Messiaen’s quartet, first performed in a freezing barracks in 1941, is a thing of great beauty
The King is our eternal everyman
Oak Apple Day celebrates the inevitable return of the primordial and the perennial