Ferrari
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
Sticky situation
Everyone’s Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe was different. All were revolting
Deconstructing the pro-EU fantasies of the FT
22.5 per cent agrifood export growth? They must be joking
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
