Gay pride
The LGBTQ+ monkeypox failure
Gay men have been failed by a lobby that trades in fear rather than facts
Visual mess
The pride flag has ended up symbolising nothing at all
The bravery of big corporations
They don’t bother with the flag in their Arab outlets, because Islamic culture is far more progressive
Hans Winterberg: orchestral works (Capriccio)
The lost sounds of a German Jewish composer
The renewal of Englishness
Journalist James Cowley builds a national identity from an excavation of incidents
Illiteracy of the tax-cut lobby
Slashing taxes cannot make a nation better off. Instead we must increase production
Institutional cover
Why are Health Talk and Oxford University promoting GenderGP?
Red meat week?
Boris Johnson is reduced to conducting his publicity tours in secret
Mansplaining womanhood
What is a woman? What are they for? Do they have souls? Men may never know, as that might involve asking a woman her opinion
Is the Union breaking up?
Nationalist parties have a vested interest in falling short of independence
Musical scores
Great passages of play evoke great music
Dinner in the Bloodlands
Belarus Free Theatre brings moral complexity to the table
Sunak leads the retreat
A windfall tax is apparently not a windfall tax if the Tories introduce it
Unearthly study of life and death
Yukio Mishima concealed his poignant political commentary in a run-of-the-mill science fiction novel