feuds
The death of the literary feud
When writers become fighters
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Explaining the Boriswave
How and why the Conservatives betrayed their voters on immigration
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
The dark underbelly of the sex industry
Advocacy for the idea of sex work has not been matched by advocacy for the exploited
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
