Rob Young
Television tome that needs tuning
The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Who are universities for?
Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
