Spanish Flu
Love and death in Vienna
Spanish flu killed Schiele and Klimt. Their art sensed the brevity of life and the doom of their society
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Patchett is as good as she needs to be
Whistler by Ann Patchett; The Smiths: A Novella by Michael
Bracewell; Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?