Bullfighting
Taurine state of grace
Christopher North joins the devoted cult of the elegant, enigmatic bullfighter José Tomás
The final frontier
Christopher North says bullfighting thrives in a culture where death is discussed, not hidden
The pardoner’s tale
Christopher North on a sentimental fad that risks cheapening the ritual of the bullring
End of the fiesta?
Christopher North worries that lockdown has caused an extinction-level crisis
Pick of the plazas
Christopher North advises on the best bullrings for budding aficionados
Bullfighting à la mode
Christopher North says French aficionados are more demanding than the Spanish
Lords of the ring
Christopher North says while matadors come and go, pedigree fighting bulls remain
Death of a maestro
Christopher North pays tribute to one of the two great matadors of the Golden Age
Opening gambits
Christopher North witnesses the start of the bullfighting season
A little world of death
Christopher North says the decline of bull fighting is greatly exaggerated
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
