Dev Patel
David Copperfield and the politics of diversity
Diverse casting of period adaptations is a risk worth taking
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Behind the sofa government
Current Tory strategy consists in hiding and hoping the voters don’t notice the mess
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
