Voting systems matter – ours is a problem
Our politicians are secure in the knowledge they can ignore the base
Covid notes
The Pied Piper of Pandemic Porn ‘Fool me once,’ say Americans, ‘shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.’…
Dangerous elites planning ‘the Great Reset’
Davos 2021 will launch its own Green New Deal. Be afraid.
Lockdown
What a strange phase the world of theatre – the world of artistic activity – is going through at the…
Richard Tognetti
They led the way back into the spotlight. Richard Tognetti and members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra were the first…
Aussie Life & Language
Brendan Ward A re-run of Cathy Freeman’s heart-stopping 400 metre race at the Sydney Olympics in September 2000 recently animated…
Kiwi Life
Once upon a time here in New Zealand, when political dinosaurs still roamed the earth, Prime Minister Keith Holyoake startled…
Words take wing
When Helen Macdonald was a child, she had a way of calming herself during moments of stress: closing her eyes,…
A walk on the Wilde side
Philip Hensher admires a witty account of the horrors of modern film-making
Secrets of the double cross
Für dich, Tommy, ist der Krieg vorbei. However, many British servicemen, officers especially, didn’t want their war to be over.…
Portrait of the week
Home Coronavirus was on the increase. At the beginning of the week, Sunday 4 October, total deaths (within 28 days…
The mask of deception
Talbot Kydd, film producer; Anny Viklund, American actress; Elfrida Wing, novelist; these make the trio of the title. Private lives…
Breakdown in Berlin
‘I was what they call an “independent scholar”’, confides the narrator of Hari Kunzru’s Red Pill, a middle-aged writer from…
Diary
I first visited Orford in 1970, at peak Cold War when this stretch of the East Anglian coast was one…
Veeps shall inherit the earth
In Pence and Harris, we are looking at the future of the Republican Party
Blood and lust
In June 793, a raiding force arrived by boat at the island monastery of Lindisfarne, on the Northumbrian coast. The…
Bridge
One of the things that makes bridge so endlessly fascinating is that it is forever changing and growing. At high…
Rare and precious
Martin Gayford explains why the Royal Academy would be wrong to sell Michelangelo’s ‘Taddei Tondo’
