Culture
Declining figures
British museums and galleries have yet to recover from Covid.
Rap’s dilemma
Sarah Ditum unwraps the rap culture war.
Micro niche
The best piece of pop
Are you not entertained?
The emptiness of popular culture
The madding crowd
Drunks, dames and Dahl
Keeping it funky
An Argentine winery that revels in the old ways
Selling the jewels
Auntie has gone mad and is auctioning off the family silver
Performance politics (with Lola Salem)
On the multi-pronged campaign against reality
The dog won’t hunt
Why are we so dismissive of rural ways?
Virtual insanity
Has online shopping gone too far?
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
Overmedicalisation is harming Generation Z
Zoomers are fragile because they have been told they are
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
March 2024: Letters to the Editor
Record-setting sons and founding fathers
