Live and Let Lie - James Bond stumbles into the culture wars
Charlie Higson’s new book ‘On His Majesty’s Secret Service’ affirms Bond’s decline.
Farage versus Coutts
People will see this case as a proxy for their own imagined future humiliation at the hands of bureaucrats and feel a cathartic anger.
The old man and the wall
“When one has the opportunity to do what one wishes, one not only should do so, but one has to.”
The Lost King of Bohemia: Julian Maclaren-Ross and his world
Today, in an age of anaemic sensations and choreographed leisure, we have lost much of the verve of instantaneous life so central to Maclaren-Ross.
At ‘The Exhibition’
A new aesthetic movement that is vital, distinct, cool, and forward-facing, while not abandoning the past, but taking it along for the ride.
Not Cricket! Is the English game really unfit for purpose?
Cricket is the latest victim of the attempt to separate culture from its roots and natural development.
The Haunted Road: a journey through Cormac MacCarthy’s lost America
In his work our most elemental responses were immortalized in luminous gravity.
Greeks healing rifts
Can an Ashmolean exhibition on ancient Crete restore my faith in museums?