Culture
The hypocrisy of cultural boycotts
Spare us the corporate virtue-signalling
Lates at the Tate
A propaganda film which attempts to define womanhood misses the mark
The lady vanishes
TV adaptations have masked the complexity and skill of Agatha Christie
Why modern novels are so boring
Writers who forget bourgeois aspiration lose a dimension
Tacsi for a moribund language
Why condemn a million Welsh people to a parochial linguistic straitjacket?
Silver spoons and sob stories
What makes an heiress?
The censor returns
New Lord Chamberlains are policing the stage with puritan zeal
Chum chucking chum
Not the Nine O’Clock News, or Ten, or Eleven, or, well, any
Thinking on inking
An intellectual tries — and fails — to find deep philosophical justifications for the modern wave of tattooing
Pohadka (Chandos)
The Czechs always have talent to spare on the bench
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
It’s the money supply, stupid
How the Keynesian blinkers of Democrat economists led to a second Trump victory
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Burgundy on a budget
In search of the wine lover’s holy grail
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
