Lil Nas X
Hot sauce
Lil Nas X is the greatest show in the world right now
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
Women in prisons deserve better
Classifying male criminals as women adds insult to injury
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
A passage to Istria
Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast
