Rex Whistler
A question of taste
Rex Whistler’s Tate mural should be seen more as an ironic Rococo fantasy than the work of a racist
Food for Thought
The saga of the Rex Whistler restaurant and Tate Britain
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
