The art of survival in Nazi Germany
Artists in the Third Reich swiftly learnt to adapt to Hitler’s traditionalist cultural diktats
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Mapuche thugs fan the flames of revenge
"On one side is a government with a history of military overreach and ethnic cleansing. On the other is Chile’s poorest and most disenfranchised group rising up after centuries of mistreatment"
Foie Gove
Michael Gove's plan to ban foie gras is an essentially frivolous self-advertisement
Jam tomorrow
"We do so love a literary rejection, provided it isn’t our own, of course."
The new normal
"Now nobody, it seems, wants to be seen as normal: not even normal people. But I do. All my life I’ve craved normality and never quite managed it"
Closed Minds
"In Britain's universities, there is no incendiary debate on Brexit, merely a stunned lack of comprehension and the blithe assumption that all we “nice” people voted to remain"
Mañana, mañana
"Beyoncé got involved in youth voter registration — you could sign up at her concerts — because apparently, without the world’s most famous pop star yelling at us, millennials cannot fill out
BOGOF, Nanny
"The proposed sugar tax and a prospective ban on BOGOFs — supermarket buy-one, get-one-free offers — are perfect examples of how muddled thinking leads to the busybody interference of the Nanny State"
The art of faking it
On Instagram, there's nothing cooler than corporate sponsorship — so aspiring influencers are now creating fake sponsored content