Culture
Strap In, or Strap On?
Why is Prince Harry publishing a memoir?
They’re not laughing now
Without taxpayer handouts, will the arts finally be forced to give people what they want?
Only collect
The key to successful selling is to cultivate collectors
Original sin
Robert Thicknesse on the woes of modern, British opera
The pain gain
In today’s pop world trauma is an asset
Publish — or be damned
There’s no wonder that books are becoming more conformist when freedom of expression is being curtailed
Ignoring race won’t help anything
The dangers of pathological altruism
Full of Eastern promise
Out with the old, in with the new: Michael Prodger on art collection trends
The Piedmontese job
Enjoying the silky and lean Italian Fassona beef in Turin and Kensington
Muzzled in Moscow
Drawing on the author’s experiences, the book’s effect is akin to having a long pub chat with a knowledgeable journo
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
