Post-Pandemic
A hidden horror
Rakib’s Britain: Domestic abuse is happening behind closed doors — and within closed cultures
Spring into bling
Post-pandemic life is a party
And never the twain shall meet?
A lineup of new books tackle the thorny China problem
Funny old game
What would Big Jack have made of today’s shoots?
Banks, bikes and choppers
Banks should be like activist investors and intervene early rather than pull loans hastily
Reynaldo Hahn: Poèmes & Valses (Hyperion)
This unfamiliar collection is the most enjoyable piano album of the year so far
The Thirty Years War
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Thirty Years War in the German lands
Cancelled at Cannes
Sidelining the creator of a national movement is pure, unashamed revisionism
The birds and the beef
Far from being an ecological enemy, cattle-grazing encourages natural diversity and helps in the battle to save some of our most endangered species
Inclusion isn’t a dirty word
Conservatism is the really inclusive worldview, because it offers us rules to live by
Arise, Sir Wayne
The trickle of sporting knighthoods has now become a flood — who will be next?
Germany’s crisis of conscience
An unholy alliance of Berlin capitalists and intellectuals has disastrously misjudged the Ukraine war
The right to a wrong-time to party
The Prime Minister remains sorry but not sorry