David Bruce
The man who liberated the Ritz
David Bruce: “the last American aristocrat” renowned for his oenophilia
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
