Luxury Lifestyle
Wearing shades
We plebs aren’t supposed to buy designer-influenced fast fashion anymore
The sweet smell of success
The fragrance that introduces its wearer tastefully and without ostentation
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
The gender wars have not been won
“No debate” has been defeated — but the debate is still ongoing
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
The renovation of the Heal’s Building
Londoners are sentimental about the early-twentieth-century Tottenham Court Road store, Heal’s
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
