Culture
The G&S divide
A large proportion of the English drive themselves mad with a baroque cocktail of fury, snobbery and self-hatred over Gilbert and Sullivan
Impossible things before breakfast
At the V&A the lines between madness and sanity are blurred
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book
Shostakovich: Piano concertos 1&2; piano trio 2 (Linn)
This is a recording that encapsulates the other, older side of Europe
Boris Bunter
Is our Prime Minister the Fat Owl of the Government?
Angels, demons and videotape
What American journalism’s “teaching moments” teach us about American journalism
War-war leads to jaw-jaw
This is a starkly different interpretation on the proliferation of written constitutions and rams it home with cogency and panache
Russell Beale on song as Bach
How the paternal gorgon finally attracts our empathy, waging a last intellectual battle
Television tome that needs tuning
The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth
Storm in a frying pan
The row over sending great British bangers to Bangor illustrates a dismal lack of gastronomic culture
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
