Fast Food
Fast food and stolen goods
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger
American nightmare
Lisa Hilton reluctantly samples a Five Guys burger in Milan and regrets it
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
