Culture
Scenting success
The wondrous whiff of sex, spice and civet
My interiors life: weaned on the small screen
My formative years and future
tastes in all things were formed by
1950s and 1960s television,
Getting the picture in 2021
From cryptocurrency to pandemic plagued exhibitions, it’s been an eventful year in art
Fart for art’s sake
A not-so-fond farewell to the “sophomoric male”, the man-child purveyor of infantile humour
Been there, read that
Can we leave old books alone?
The man who took the wrong flat white
We urgently need new rules for modern social etiquette
Matters of fact in a post-truth world
The message of The Constitution of Knowledge is one of hope, as Rauch urges those who resent the censors to “unmute” themselves
Glaring omissions of a whistle-stop tour
Carey is the tour guide of a magnificent villa telling of the wonders that lie beyond a closed door
The myth of infallibility
Dispiriting as it may be, great authors are capable of writing bad books
An Enlightenment king vindicated
Andrew Roberts dispels the myths and sticks to the facts about George III
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
