Satire
That was then, this is now
It’s a kindness of friends not to look at what we’re doing
What’s the point of political art?
Art that shocks, offends, and amuses has a purpose beyond aesthetic: its existence is a testament to freedom of expression
Hermione Simper
Although Hermione rarely names names or dishes dirt with quite the enthusiasm that her mother did, then she too has her tales to tell
Lucien Grote: Experimental Playwright
Lucien veers between lamenting modern theatre’s disdain for “truly serious work” and suspecting that it all could have gone a great deal worse
What are universities coming to?
A spectre is haunting British student politics: the spectre of the pro-life movement
FOR IMMEDIATE USELESSNESS
Hutton OUT; Roger Knapman IN
Quackery via cartography
You better believe the earth is flat
Spare us easy satire
Satire is supposed to be the unsayable, not virtue-signalling two-bit doggerel
Latex memories
Spitting Image (BritBox)
What Spitting Image did to British politics
As Spitting Image returns to our screens, its original impact has not been forgotten
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
The blessings on our doorsteps
It is all too easy to forget the astonishing cultural wealth that lies close to hand in our medieval parish churches
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
