Post-War
Being the girl in the green jumper
Cyril Mann’s muse, Renske Mann, rescues the artist from forgotten obscurity
Was postwar Britain as grey and dull as everyone thinks?
A new exhibition at the Barbican sheds light on the forgotten decade
1945 at 75: Labour’s Very Reasonable Revolution
Anthony Broxton looks back on the election win that Labour now aspire to
Don’t judge a play by its label
The instinct towards appeasing “sensitivity” would stifle the creative impulse
Boris comes down from the mountain
Is he the Tory messiah, or just a very naughty boy?
Without a twist
This weather-based thriller is all hot air, but who doesn’t enjoy a warm summer breeze?
You are being nudged
State-sponsored psychological manipulation is becoming ubiquitous
The spy who came in from the coast
Defector Natalie Elphicke leaves the Circus to join the pinkos
Losing the crowd
In bullfighting, audiences can be as tough as animals
Murders for July
The most gripping and grisly detective novels of the month, from Devon to Orkney
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
Old man shouts at Trump
The US Presidential debate was a tragicomic spectacle
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship