jacket
Hanging out the white flag
It feels cooler, even where it isn’t
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
