Culture
Trick nor Treat: the hounding of Halloween
Dressing up for Halloween has been cancelled by the culture police
Flirting with damnation
As Greene explained to his wife when their marriage ended, what made him a bad husband was precisely what made him a good writer
Tom Stoppard: A private man now on parade
This biography is a testament to detailed analysis and intelligent insight, says Alexander Larman
The comings and goings of “Club Cupido”
Dominic Hilton recalls the cast of characters at a Buenos Aires club de barrio
The death of the DVD commentary
How the rise of streaming platforms has killed home entertainment
Unfinished Business at the British Library
The British Library’s new exhibition on feminism is like being hit with a rolled-up copy of Spare Rib
The Mirror of #MeToo
Luciano Garbati’s new work expresses a widespread decline in symbolic literacy
Starring Chelsea Peretti as Herself
The moments of interruption in Peretti’s stand-up reveal the constructedness of what we are watching
Are fictional politicians as interesting as the real thing?
Sir David Hare’s new BBC drama feels small-scale when we are surrounded by far more impressive real-life spectacles
American Utopia
Facts are overlooked in American Utopia’s HBO concert film to accommodate the systemic white racism narrative
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
