Culture
A tasty tester for a better year
The Comeback is a gutsy British response to a period of glum hardship
A question of taste
Rex Whistler’s Tate mural should be seen more as an ironic Rococo fantasy than the work of a racist
Carry on spending
Even the venerable and conservative Louvre is exploring various fundraising novelties, says Michael Prodger
The beat will go on
The coronavirus pandemic has decimated the nightclub industry, but will the shifting landscape sow the seeds for an entirely new era of clubbing?
Out with the Old Masters?
Will traditional museums be replaced by modern “experiences”?
From disaster to opportunity
London’s orchestral rat-race will have fewer runners when musical life returns, says Norman Lebrecht
My eighteenth century life
Black’s History Week, with Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart
It’s a Wonderful Life: the perfect Christmas film?
The 1946 classic is a timely reminder that affection and loyalty can surface in the most difficult of circumstances
The unkindest cut
Why can’t film directors let their work go?
England’s Caravaggio
Matthew Craske’s book challenges the prevailing idea of Joseph Wright as product and servant of rationalism and Enlightenment
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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
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic