Marie Antoinette
Let them eat filberts
The new owner of Antoinette’s jewellery will not just get exquisite gems but a provenance that is equally perfect and poignant
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
