Jon Stewart
What is a man?
And why does no one ever ask
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Intellectual property
Property: The Myth that built the World by Rowan Moore
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
Killing with kindness
“Be kind” culture has abandoned adolescent girls
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
