London
Remembering Lord Nelson
Gawain Towler fondly recalls his local pub as it closes for the second time due to lockdown
Woo-woo wins out
I’ve succeeded in keeping Will in London… for now
Unfinished Business at the British Library
The British Library’s new exhibition on feminism is like being hit with a rolled-up copy of Spare Rib
When you pile tragedy too high, you sell it too cheap
Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery (until 31 October)
An awful warning
Ainsworth’s fate was sealed not how he wrote but what he placed at the heart of his stories
From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
All dressed up and raring to go
A brilliant, ambitious volume of art history — but physically difficult to read
An incomplete history of the Swinging Sixties
Any history of the 1960s that neglects mass culture is not to be taken entirely seriously
Soho, Soho, it’s off to walk we go…
Is pedestrianisation the way to reopen Soho?
Non-nose job
In a free reworking of “Cyrano”, it takes pizzazz to rewrite French alexandrines in the manner of Eminem
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
