Gstaad
Swiss cheese
Milly Ffyne shares an excellent but dispiriting fondue in the alpine haunt of the international jet set
Can jokes in terrible taste ever be funny?
Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”
The virtues of complaint
There’s nothing anti-feminist about female complaint
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
Art as collateral
Making art mean something again
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
Will Labour build back better?
The most conspicuous monuments of the last decade are the vast online shopping warehouses
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Digital killed the analogue man
Despite the seductions of the virtual, we can’t escape our bodies
Irreversible damage
Trans “healthcare” has been utterly discredited, but activists are undeterred by the evidence
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
Trump the peacemaker?
Donald Trump’s survival should inspire him to seek an end to violence
