Silvester
True diversity
Acting ability should matter more than “lived experience”
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Waugh at war
Self-sacrifice, tradition and service seem to have been cast aside by today’s society
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
A Royal good time
Racing brings the country together in a convulsion of delirious democracy
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Israel’s forever war
Netanyahu risks dragging his country and his allies into an open-ended regional conflict
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
