Jane Thynne
The Critic Books Podcast: C J Carey’s Widowland
C J Carey speaks to Francesca Peacock about Widowland
Don’t ban the billboards
Campaigns against advertising are pure public health fanaticism
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Small talk and big asks
Men’s mental health is a serious matter — but it is wrong to expect people to be lifesavers
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life