V&A
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
Impossible things before breakfast
At the V&A the lines between madness and sanity are blurred
Alice in blunderland
The V&A reckons Alice in Wonderland is a self-help manual in the sex-war rather than the daydreams of an old Oxford perv
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
Israel’s forever war
Netanyahu risks dragging his country and his allies into an open-ended regional conflict
Art as collateral
Making art mean something again
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
