Lord Rochester
How to become a cult writer
What does it take for an author to become idolised way beyond their literary merit?
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Who are universities for?
Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more
Parents are being hypocritical about smartphones
Yes, kids use their phones too much, but what about adults?
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
