German Culture
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
The Merry Widow’s peak operetta
Who should we blame for art admired by monsters?
The art of experience
The great German Romantic Caspar David Friedrich deserves more attention
Rejecting Kant’s cant
Germany, cradle of the hate speech law
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions