Cultural Revolution
From disaster to opportunity
London’s orchestral rat-race will have fewer runners when musical life returns, says Norman Lebrecht
China travels and travails
Rana Mitter reviews The China Journals and The Colour of the Sky After Rain
Behind the sofa government
Current Tory strategy consists in hiding and hoping the voters don’t notice the mess
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
For whom the road tolls
Did turnpike roads transform travel in the 18th century? Or were they a means for rent-seeking?
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
Overmedicalisation is harming Generation Z
Zoomers are fragile because they have been told they are
No happy endings
Our worst sin has been to be weak, rather than merely to be wrong
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
Godfather of British geopolitics
The revolutionary global thinking of an Edwardian academic continues to shape attitudes today
