George MacDonald Fraser
Rogue male
Scoundrel, liar, cheat and toady, George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman is a creation of genius and a bracing antidote to our timid age
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Killing democracy to save it?
The annulling of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections should concern us all
