London
A good read but variable as history
A Short History of London is good on architecture but a more sophisticated analysis is needed
The theatre of inconvenience
The Old Vic’s abolition of women’s toilets is an outrage
Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
