Jordan Bardella
Collapse of the cordon sanitaire
The success of nationalists is shaking European politics
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
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
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
