Keira Knightley
Joe Wright: Auteur of awfulness
His films are overrated, overindulged, and dismal
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
