Culture
Sculptor, wrecker and seducer
A beautiful book, but a fairly orthodox biography of the Hon. Stephen “Tommy” Tomlin
Benin’s bronze ambassadors
What the opening of the Edo Museum of West African Art means for the potential restitution of 2,807 historical bronze artefacts
Heaven and hell
Celebrate the return of normal life, but choose your guests with care
Cancelling mad men
What’s gotten into the Advertising Standards Authority?
Independent minds
Small local publishers are putting out the brightest and best new work
Sequel opportunities
What does Amazon’s purchase of MGM mean for cinema?
French Class
Michael Collins looks back Bertrand Burgalat’s career as the architect for the modern French pop sound
Cricket’s bible takes the knee
Michael Henderson says, hats off, everybody, to the troupers of the famous yellow Almanack
Burning heritage
Are the Houses of Parliament set for the flames? Brice Stratford discusses with David Scullion
Spare us the pronouns, Sandman
The more you play along, the harder it is to distance yourself from the fallout later
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening