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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space