City
Cities risen from ashes
75 years after the Dresden bombings, Lincoln Allison discusses the raising of razed cities
Graham Topman: festival organiser
Roll up, roll up, it’s time for another festival of arts, ideas and Graham (mostly Graham)
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Rejoice, the war is over!
Remember when Keir Starmer took the knee for BLM to demonstrate his opposition to the culture war?
Murders for August
From killers down under to death across the pond
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
