African reset: will Covid-19 bring change?
It is tempting to hope that ordinary people will rise up and demand change. But we are more likely to see poverty exacerbated
Dress sense
‘My own red carpet days have long since mutated into brown lino nights, but looking back at the times I borrowed a designer frock
Infectious enthusiasms
Hard times on stage—and off it
A breath of fresh paint
A revival in figurative art and the changing face of portraiture
A boy’s own adventure
Privileged images: the photography of Jacques Henri Lartigue
Well-tempered tones
A celebration of Sufi sounds in Rajasthan offers much to treasure
Toponymic subjugation
Excessive politeness by Britons is making a mess of place names at home and abroad
Defeat begets defeat for Britain’s cloth-eared Left
The censorious culture of the liberal Left is hostile to freedom of expression. The fate of the trans-rights movement evinces this pointless politics