Patrick Stewart
Romeo’s 2020 Lockdown Awards
How have the great and the good delivered in recent months?
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
Why are we ignoring the slaughter in Sudan?
There is no excuse for indifference when we pay such close attention to other wars
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss