Culture
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
