Postmodernism
A crisis of truths
In our partisan, post-truth age of fake news and “follow the science”, the link between facts, narrative and power has never seemed more stark
Enough with the bigotry mind-reading
Why do people insist on jumping to the least generous interpretation possible?
Embracing the quiet life
Keir Starmer takes a vow of public service and perpetual dogmatic silence
Five rules for governing
Use your power, bring back politics, extend your wings, rebuild your base — and govern in poetry
The secret war of a wolf in chic clothing
Dudley Clarke had his fingers in many of the most interesting pies of covert operations in World War II
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
The Conservatives must repent and rebuild
The Tories have to put themselves in a position to exploit Labour weakness
Balance the books
Britain’s soaring debt may not be as sustainable in the long term as figures suggest
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
When things could only get better
Fans of the 1990s aren’t nostalgic reactionaries. They celebrate an era of optimism, peace, prosperity and great popular culture
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
