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Issue: April 2020

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 for a nomination, I usually spent the evening feeling faintly immoral’
Maureen Lipman

Infectious enthusiasms
Hard times on stage—and off it
Mark Lawson

A breath of fresh paint
A revival in figurative art and the changing face of portraiture
Cindy Polemis

A boy’s own adventure
Privileged images: the photography of Jacques Henri Lartigue
Christian House

Well-tempered tones
A celebration of Sufi sounds in Rajasthan offers much to treasure
Jonathan Gaisman

Toponymic subjugation
Excessive politeness by Britons is making a mess of place names at home and abroad
Peter Trudgill

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
Nick Cohen

A hinge in history
The tumult in Kiev 15 years ago seemed a victory for progress and idealism—but the Orange Revolution marked the furthest point of democracy’s advance
A.D. Miller

Robert Conquest: Garland for a Propagandist
The Commissar of Bray: Robert Conquest satirises Communist hackery
Robert Conquest

Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan was a writer with a rich hinterland—and an affection for “shockers”
Ursula Buchan

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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