Indo-Pacific
Does Britain need more nukes?
The Integrated Review: goodbye Middle East; hello South China Sea; but still Russia first
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
