Style
Steam and cedar
How to moth-proof your carefully curated personal V&A
Gaspingly chic
The accoutrements of smoking are deathly cool
Storied Success
& Other Stories is the new high street Destination of Choice
After the goldrush
Hannah Betts finds a way to live with her pet hate — denim jeans
Ivy Leagues ahead
Hannah Betts goes preppy in penny loafers and Ralph Lauren
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
