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class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Arts feature </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The Starland Vocal Band were on to something. In their 1976 hit ‘Afternoon Delight’ they sang, in gruesomely twee harmony: ‘Gonna grab some afternoon delight/ My motto’s always been when it’s right it’s right/ Why wait until the middle of a cold, dark night?’ Granted, they were singing about rumpy-pumpy, not theatre-going, but for many</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-were-flocking-to-matinees/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Heath_tea.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Heath_tea.jpg?resize=1052,701 1052w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Heath_tea.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Heath_tea.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Heath_tea.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Heath_tea.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Heath_tea.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Heath_tea.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--nine-up">  <div class="mosaic__tile-row mosaic__tile--three-up"> <article id="article-550186" class="article article--row article--three-up article--vertical article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="I genuinely feared The End would never end">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/deborah-ross/"> Deborah Ross </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-genuinely-feared-the-end-would-never-end/"> I genuinely feared The End would never end </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Cinema </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End is a ‘post-apocalyptic musical’ starring Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon that is being sold as a ‘bold vision’. 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They suggested that nowadays every artist, from pop starlets to indie rebels, relies</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/traditional-music-at-its-most-graceful-ingenious-and-jaw-dropping/"> <img width="262" height="147" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC6746-1.jpg?resize=262,147" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC6746-1.jpg?resize=962,541 962w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC6746-1.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC6746-1.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC6746-1.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC6746-1.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC6746-1.jpg?resize=800,450 800w" sizes="(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> <article id="article-550194" class="article article--row article--three-up article--vertical article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Ridiculously fun: Assassin’s Creed – Shadows reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/sam-leith/"> Sam Leith </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Sam Leith" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sam_L.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ridiculously-fun-assassins-creed-shadows-reviewed/"> Ridiculously fun: Assassin’s Creed – Shadows reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Arts </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Grade: A Sometimes you want to admire the pluck and inventiveness of an indie developer. At other times, you just want to sink into some thumping AAA franchise that’s thrown all the time, design talent and VC megabucks in the world at the screen. The new Assassin’s Creed has you covered there. Irresistibly, it’s set</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ridiculously-fun-assassins-creed-shadows-reviewed/"> <img width="262" height="147" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marnewgamer.jpg?resize=262,147" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marnewgamer.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marnewgamer.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marnewgamer.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marnewgamer.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marnewgamer.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marnewgamer.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29Marnewgamer.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div>  <div class="mosaic__tile-group mosaic__group-rail-alternative"> <div class="mosaic__tile-featured"> <article id="article-550197" class="article article--featured article-- article--vertical article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="What a joy to see some Merce Cunningham again">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/rupert-christiansen/"> Rupert Christiansen </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-a-joy-to-see-some-merce-cunningham-again/"> What a joy to see some Merce Cunningham again </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Dance </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">How salutary to encounter the cool cerebral elegance of Merce Cunningham’s choreography again. A figure at the heart of the abstract tendency in post-war American culture, the lover and collaborator of John Cage, Cunningham emptied barefoot dance of ideology, symbolism, plot, personality, pretension: instead it became purely an exploration of bodies in movement, responsive to</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-a-joy-to-see-some-merce-cunningham-again/"> <img width="440" height="248" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarDance.jpg?resize=440,248" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarDance.jpg?resize=1038,584 1038w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarDance.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarDance.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarDance.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarDance.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarDance.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarDance.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div>  <div class="mosaic__tile-rail"> <article id="article-550202" class="article article--rail article--small-excerpt article-- article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Dope Thief is a cut above your usual inner-city crime-drama porn">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dope-thief-is-a-cut-above-your-usual-inner-city-crime-drama-porn/"> <img width="200" height="113" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dope_Thief_Photo_010306.jpg?resize=200,113" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dope_Thief_Photo_010306.jpg?resize=985,554 985w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dope_Thief_Photo_010306.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dope_Thief_Photo_010306.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dope_Thief_Photo_010306.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dope_Thief_Photo_010306.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dope_Thief_Photo_010306.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dope_Thief_Photo_010306.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/james-delingpole/"> James Delingpole </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="James Delingpole" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/James_D.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dope-thief-is-a-cut-above-your-usual-inner-city-crime-drama-porn/"> Dope Thief is a cut above your usual inner-city crime-drama porn </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Television </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">I really had no interest in watching Dope Thief. It’s another of those crime dramas set in a bleak-looking city – possibly there are some pretty parts of Philadelphia but we only get to see the bad bits – where everyone seems to be on welfare or a drug dealer, or both, everything looks washed</p> </div> </header>  </article> <article id="article-550205" class="article article--rail article--small-excerpt article-- article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Splendid revival of an unsurpassed production: Royal Opera’s Turandot reviewed">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/splendid-revival-of-an-unsurpassed-production-royal-operas-turandot-reviewed/"> <img width="200" height="113" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarClassical.jpg?resize=200,113" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarClassical.jpg?resize=1248,702 1248w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarClassical.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarClassical.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarClassical.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarClassical.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarClassical.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/29MarClassical.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/richard-bratby/"> Richard Bratby </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/splendid-revival-of-an-unsurpassed-production-royal-operas-turandot-reviewed/"> Splendid revival of an unsurpassed production: Royal Opera’s Turandot reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Classical </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Puccini’s Turandot is back at the Royal Opera in the 40-year old production by Andrei Serban and… well, guilty pleasure is an unfashionable notion these days, but I still feel a batsqueak of shame at enjoying it so much. It’s not the chinoiserie – anyone who believes that an opera based on an 18th-century Italian</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div>  <div class="mosaic__tile-row-two"> <article id="article-550209" class="article article--row-two article--one-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="I wish someone would kill or eat useless Totoro ">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-wish-someone-would-kill-or-eat-useless-totoro/"> <img width="200" height="133" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/394178_My-Neighbour-Totoro-production-images-2025_2025.jpg?resize=200,133" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/394178_My-Neighbour-Totoro-production-images-2025_2025.jpg?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/394178_My-Neighbour-Totoro-production-images-2025_2025.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/394178_My-Neighbour-Totoro-production-images-2025_2025.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/394178_My-Neighbour-Totoro-production-images-2025_2025.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/394178_My-Neighbour-Totoro-production-images-2025_2025.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/394178_My-Neighbour-Totoro-production-images-2025_2025.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/394178_My-Neighbour-Totoro-production-images-2025_2025.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-wish-someone-would-kill-or-eat-useless-totoro/"> I wish someone would kill or eat useless Totoro  </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">My Neighbour Totoro is a hugely successful show based on a Japanese movie made in 1988. The setting is a haunted house occupied by two little girls who encounter various creatures rendered on stage by puppets. The story has no action, danger or jeopardy so it’s likely to bore small boys and their dads. Perhaps</p> </div> </header>  </article> <article id="article-550036" class="article article--row-two article--one-up article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="A novel in disguise: Theory & Practice, by Michelle de Kretser, reviewed">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-novel-in-disguise-theory-practice-by-michelle-de-kretser-reviewed/"> <img width="200" height="133" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6Michelle-de-Kretser-©Joy-Lai.jpg?resize=200,133" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6Michelle-de-Kretser-©Joy-Lai.jpg?resize=1001,667 1001w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6Michelle-de-Kretser-©Joy-Lai.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6Michelle-de-Kretser-©Joy-Lai.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6Michelle-de-Kretser-©Joy-Lai.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6Michelle-de-Kretser-©Joy-Lai.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6Michelle-de-Kretser-©Joy-Lai.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6Michelle-de-Kretser-©Joy-Lai.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/philip-hensher/"> Philip Hensher </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-novel-in-disguise-theory-practice-by-michelle-de-kretser-reviewed/"> A novel in disguise: Theory & Practice, by Michelle de Kretser, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Michelle de Kretser, of a Sri Lankan family living in Australia, is an exceptional novelist – perhaps among the ten best at work in English today. She has been recognised with literary prizes, but it’s surprising that she hasn’t made quite the impact on the public she deserves. She is one of those writers who</p> </div> </header>  </article> <article id="article-550039" class="article article--row-two article--one-up article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Why, at 75, does Graydon Carter still feel the need to impress?">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-at-75-does-graydon-carter-still-feel-the-need-to-impress/"> <img width="200" height="133" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7Graydon-Carter-pic.-Credit-Nikolai-von-Bismarck.jpg?resize=200,133" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7Graydon-Carter-pic.-Credit-Nikolai-von-Bismarck.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7Graydon-Carter-pic.-Credit-Nikolai-von-Bismarck.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7Graydon-Carter-pic.-Credit-Nikolai-von-Bismarck.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7Graydon-Carter-pic.-Credit-Nikolai-von-Bismarck.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7Graydon-Carter-pic.-Credit-Nikolai-von-Bismarck.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7Graydon-Carter-pic.-Credit-Nikolai-von-Bismarck.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7Graydon-Carter-pic.-Credit-Nikolai-von-Bismarck.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/toby-young/"> Toby Young </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Toby Young" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Toby_Y.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-at-75-does-graydon-carter-still-feel-the-need-to-impress/"> Why, at 75, does Graydon Carter still feel the need to impress? </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">When I started working for Vanity Fair in 1995 I remember coming into the office one morning to discover that most of the senior editorial staff had disappeared. They weren’t at their desks, and phone calls went unreturned. Was this a Jewish holiday? It turned out to be the day Graydon Carter had set aside</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="three-up"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile-row mosaic__tile--three-up"> <article id="article-550042" class="article article--three-up article--vertical article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Heroes of the Norwegian resistance">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/christian-house/"> Christian House </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/heroes-of-the-norwegian-resistance/"> Heroes of the Norwegian resistance </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Reading Robert Ferguson’s fascinating history of the experiences of the Norwegians during the five years of German occupation between 1940 and 1945 – a collage of resistance, collaboration and the grey areas in between – I was reminded of the remarks of two Norwegian nonagenarians. In 2011, I interviewed Gunnar Sonsteby, a hero of Norway’s</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/heroes-of-the-norwegian-resistance/"> <img width="262" height="147" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8Norwegian-resistance-Getty.jpg?resize=262,147" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8Norwegian-resistance-Getty.jpg?resize=1282,721 1282w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8Norwegian-resistance-Getty.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8Norwegian-resistance-Getty.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8Norwegian-resistance-Getty.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8Norwegian-resistance-Getty.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8Norwegian-resistance-Getty.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/8Norwegian-resistance-Getty.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> <article id="article-550050" class="article article--three-up article--vertical article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="A meditation on the beauty of carbon">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/dylan-neri/"> Dylan Neri </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-meditation-on-the-beauty-of-carbon/"> A meditation on the beauty of carbon </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">There’s a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One in which a magazine’s advice columnist ‘the Guru Brahmin’ (in fact ‘two gloomy men and a bright young secretary’) receives yet another letter from a compulsive nail-biter: ‘What did we advise her last time?’ Mr Slump, the chain-smoking drunk, asks. ‘Meditation on the Beautiful.’ ‘Well, tell</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-meditation-on-the-beauty-of-carbon/"> <img width="262" height="147" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9Carbon-Getty.jpg?resize=262,147" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9Carbon-Getty.jpg?resize=1330,748 1330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9Carbon-Getty.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9Carbon-Getty.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9Carbon-Getty.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9Carbon-Getty.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9Carbon-Getty.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9Carbon-Getty.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> <article id="article-550058" class="article article--three-up article--vertical article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Deep mysteries: Twist, by Colum McCann, reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/chlo-ashby/"> Chloë Ashby </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/deep-mysteries-twist-by-colum-mccann-reviewed/"> Deep mysteries: Twist, by Colum McCann, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">On the first page of Colum McCann’s compelling novel Twist we meet the two leads: John A. Conway, who has disappeared, and Anthony Fennell, who’s trying to tell his story. They first met when Fennell, an Irish journalist, struggling novelist and occasional playwright, was commissioned by an online magazine to write about the fragile fibre-optic</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/deep-mysteries-twist-by-colum-mccann-reviewed/"> <img width="262" height="147" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/10-Colum-McCann-c.-Elizabeth-Eagle-002.jpg?resize=262,147" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/10-Colum-McCann-c.-Elizabeth-Eagle-002.jpg?resize=1000,563 1000w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/10-Colum-McCann-c.-Elizabeth-Eagle-002.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/10-Colum-McCann-c.-Elizabeth-Eagle-002.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/10-Colum-McCann-c.-Elizabeth-Eagle-002.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/10-Colum-McCann-c.-Elizabeth-Eagle-002.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/10-Colum-McCann-c.-Elizabeth-Eagle-002.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/10-Colum-McCann-c.-Elizabeth-Eagle-002.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">25 Mar 2025</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="five-up"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-550032" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Bringing modernism to the masses in 20th-century Britain">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/david-honigmann/"> David Honigmann </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/bringing-modernism-to-the-masses-in-20th-century-britain/"> Bringing modernism to the masses in 20th-century Britain </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The second world war was won in the cafés of central Europe – the intellectual milieu that produced Edward Teller, Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner, and before them Albert Einstein. But even though America was an alluring destination, many of the 1930s escapees from Nazism ended up in Britain. There were scientists in their number,</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/bringing-modernism-to-the-masses-in-20th-century-britain/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/5Trellick-Getty.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/5Trellick-Getty.jpg?resize=1001,667 1001w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/5Trellick-Getty.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/5Trellick-Getty.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/5Trellick-Getty.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/5Trellick-Getty.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/5Trellick-Getty.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/5Trellick-Getty.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--five-up">  <div class="mosaic__tile-group"> <div class="mosaic__tile-featured"> <article id="article-550029" class="article article--featured article-- article--vertical article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Escape into fantasy: Stories of Ireland, by Brian Friel, reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/michael-arditti/"> Michael Arditti </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/escape-into-fantasy-stories-of-ireland-by-brian-friel-reviewed/"> Escape into fantasy: Stories of Ireland, by Brian Friel, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Before Brian Friel earned renown as a dramatist, he wrote short stories, many of which first appeared in the New Yorker. These were later published in two collections, A Saucer of Larks (1962) and The Gold in the Sea (1966). Now ten of the stories, selected by Friel before his death in 2015, along with</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/escape-into-fantasy-stories-of-ireland-by-brian-friel-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="248" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/4Brian-Friel_.jpg?resize=440,248" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/4Brian-Friel_.jpg?resize=1000,563 1000w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/4Brian-Friel_.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/4Brian-Friel_.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/4Brian-Friel_.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/4Brian-Friel_.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/4Brian-Friel_.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/4Brian-Friel_.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div>  <div class="mosaic__tile-rail"> <article id="article-550026" class="article article--rail article-- article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="The story of Noah’s flood will never go out of fashion">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-story-of-noahs-flood-will-never-go-out-of-fashion/"> <img width="150" height="100" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/3Noahs-ark-Bridgeman.jpg?resize=150,100" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/3Noahs-ark-Bridgeman.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/3Noahs-ark-Bridgeman.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/3Noahs-ark-Bridgeman.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/3Noahs-ark-Bridgeman.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/3Noahs-ark-Bridgeman.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/3Noahs-ark-Bridgeman.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/3Noahs-ark-Bridgeman.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/nick-spencer/"> Nick Spencer </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-story-of-noahs-flood-will-never-go-out-of-fashion/"> The story of Noah’s flood will never go out of fashion </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">‘They put the behemoths in the hold along with the rhinos, the hippos and the elephants. It was a sensible decision to use them as ballast, but you can imagine the stench.’ So begins Julian Barnes’s quirky novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, through which the story of Noah and the flood</p> </div> </header>  </article> <article id="article-550021" class="article article--rail article-- article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Across the universe – John and Paul are in each other’s songs forever">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/across-the-universe-john-and-paul-are-in-each-others-songs-forever/"> <img width="150" height="100" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2Paul-and-John-Getty.jpg?resize=150,100" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2Paul-and-John-Getty.jpg?resize=1430,953 1430w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2Paul-and-John-Getty.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2Paul-and-John-Getty.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2Paul-and-John-Getty.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2Paul-and-John-Getty.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2Paul-and-John-Getty.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2Paul-and-John-Getty.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/andy-miller/"> Andy Miller </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/across-the-universe-john-and-paul-are-in-each-others-songs-forever/"> Across the universe – John and Paul are in each other’s songs forever </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The world’s love affair with the Beatles began, arguably, with the release in October 1962 of the group’s first single ‘Love Me Do’, full-blown Beatlemania following hard on its Cuban heels. Will we still need them, will we still feed them, when they’re 64? The answer appears to be a resounding and remunerative yes. Beatlemania</p> </div> </header>  </article> <article id="article-550007" class="article article--rail article-- article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="How Anne Frank’s photograph became as recognisable as the Mona Lisa">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-anne-franks-photograph-became-as-recognisable-as-the-mona-lisa/"> <img width="150" height="100" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1Anne-Frank-bridgeman.jpg?resize=150,100" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1Anne-Frank-bridgeman.jpg?resize=1308,872 1308w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1Anne-Frank-bridgeman.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1Anne-Frank-bridgeman.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1Anne-Frank-bridgeman.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1Anne-Frank-bridgeman.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1Anne-Frank-bridgeman.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1Anne-Frank-bridgeman.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/bart-van-es/"> Bart van Es </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-anne-franks-photograph-became-as-recognisable-as-the-mona-lisa/"> How Anne Frank’s photograph became as recognisable as the Mona Lisa </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Lead book review </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Anne Frank died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen in late February 1945. Her last days were spent in the sick barracks caring for her sister Margot, who had a high fever and smiled contentedly, her mind already wandering. Anne, too, had been feverish, but ‘friendly and sweet’, according to witnesses. Her last recorded words were: ‘Margot</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div>  <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--one-up"> <article id="article-549984" class="article article--row article--one-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Rembrandt’s print revolution">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/rembrandts-print-revolution/"> <img width="200" height="133" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/02-B026-Rembrandt-Self-Portrait-Wearing-a-Flat-Cap-ca.-1642.jpg?resize=200,133" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/02-B026-Rembrandt-Self-Portrait-Wearing-a-Flat-Cap-ca.-1642.jpg?resize=903,602 903w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/02-B026-Rembrandt-Self-Portrait-Wearing-a-Flat-Cap-ca.-1642.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/02-B026-Rembrandt-Self-Portrait-Wearing-a-Flat-Cap-ca.-1642.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/02-B026-Rembrandt-Self-Portrait-Wearing-a-Flat-Cap-ca.-1642.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/02-B026-Rembrandt-Self-Portrait-Wearing-a-Flat-Cap-ca.-1642.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/02-B026-Rembrandt-Self-Portrait-Wearing-a-Flat-Cap-ca.-1642.jpg?resize=800,533 800w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/franklin-nelson/"> Franklin Nelson </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/rembrandts-print-revolution/"> Rembrandt’s print revolution </a> </h3> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Rembrandt was ‘largely self-taught as a printmaker’, according to Epco Runia, head of collections at Rembrandt House Museum. ‘[He] learned by looking at examples and simply trying things out,’ Runia writes in the guide that accompanies this fine show (which will travel to Charleston in October and Cincinnati next winter). Etching had only been around</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">20 Mar 2025</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="seven-up"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-548818" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Why was this fêted Mexican painter left out of the canon?">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/joanna-moorhead/"> Joanna Moorhead </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-was-this-feted-mexican-painter-left-out-of-the-canon/"> Why was this fêted Mexican painter left out of the canon? </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Arts feature </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Think of a Mexican painting, and chances are you’ll conjure up an image of an eyebrow-knitted Frida Kahlo, or a riot of exotic figures by her husband Diego Rivera, or a brightly coloured guitarist by Rufino Tamayo. What you’re unlikely to have in mind is an earthy landscape with a dusty road leading to a</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-was-this-feted-mexican-painter-left-out-of-the-canon/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Marnewlead.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Marnewlead.jpg?resize=1050,700 1050w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Marnewlead.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Marnewlead.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Marnewlead.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Marnewlead.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Marnewlead.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Marnewlead.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--seven-up">  <div class="mosaic__tile-row mosaic__tile--three-up"> <article id="article-548832" class="article article--row article--three-up article--vertical article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Irresistible: Clueless, at the Trafalgar Theatre, reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/lloyd-evans/"> Lloyd Evans </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Lloyd Evans" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lloyd-evans-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/irresistible-clueless-at-the-trafalgar-theatre-reviewed/"> Irresistible: Clueless, at the Trafalgar Theatre, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Theatre </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Cher Horowitz, the central character in Clueless, is one of the most irritating heroines in the history of movies. She’s a rich, slim, beautiful Beverly Hills princess obsessed with parties, boys and clothing brands. According to her, the world’s problems can easily be settled by using the solutions she applied to the seating plan at</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/irresistible-clueless-at-the-trafalgar-theatre-reviewed/"> <img width="262" height="147" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Martheatre.jpg?resize=262,147" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Martheatre.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Martheatre.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Martheatre.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Martheatre.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Martheatre.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Martheatre.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Martheatre.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> <article id="article-548838" class="article article--row article--three-up article--vertical article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="If ‘wokeness’ is over, can someone tell the Fitzwilliam Museum?">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/robert-tombs/"> Robert Tombs </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/robert-tombs-512x512-1.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/if-wokeness-is-over-can-someone-please-tell-the-fitzwilliam-museum/"> If ‘wokeness’ is over, can someone tell the Fitzwilliam Museum? </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Exhibitions </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Optimists believe that the tide of ‘wokeness’ is now ebbing. If so, the message has not yet reached Cambridge, whose wonderful university museum has its classical façade covered in sententious phrases in neon, and which has recently opened a new exhibition in agit-prop style: Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition. Such activism is fully in step</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/if-wokeness-is-over-can-someone-please-tell-the-fitzwilliam-museum/"> <img width="262" height="147" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Marexhibitions_a3d63d.jpg?resize=262,147" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Marexhibitions_a3d63d.jpg?resize=1570,883 1570w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Marexhibitions_a3d63d.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Marexhibitions_a3d63d.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Marexhibitions_a3d63d.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Marexhibitions_a3d63d.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Marexhibitions_a3d63d.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22Marexhibitions_a3d63d.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> <article id="article-548842" class="article article--row article--three-up article--vertical article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="The death of touring">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/michael-hann/"> Michael Hann </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-death-of-touring/"> The death of touring </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Pop </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Touring’s not what it used to be. When I were a lad, even big bands would do 30 or 40 shows around the UK to promote their new albums, stopping in places such as Chippenham Goldiggers, Hanley Victoria Hall, Ipswich Gaumont, Preston Lockley Grand Hall that would only see a major act today if they</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-death-of-touring/"> <img width="262" height="147" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC03888.jpg?resize=262,147" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC03888.jpg?resize=1161,653 1161w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC03888.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC03888.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC03888.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC03888.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC03888.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC03888.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div>  <div class="mosaic__tile-group"> <div class="mosaic__tile-featured"> <article id="article-548849" class="article article--featured article-- article--vertical article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-bottom" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Who wants a ‘girl boss’ Snow White?">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/deborah-ross/"> Deborah Ross </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/who-wants-a-girl-boss-snow-white/"> Who wants a ‘girl boss’ Snow White? </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Cinema </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Disney’s new Snow White is a live-action remake of the beloved 1937 classic that was cinema’s first full-length animated feature and is still regarded as Walt’s greatest masterpiece – even if fans of The Jungle Book will always have something to say about that. It stars Rachel Zegler, which set the cat among the pigeons,</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/who-wants-a-girl-boss-snow-white/"> <img width="440" height="248" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Cinema22Mar25Web.jpg?h=248px&crop=6,0,440px,248px" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Cinema22Mar25Web.jpg?w=1214px&crop=0,3,1214px,683px 1214w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Cinema22Mar25Web.jpg?w=320px&crop=0,3,320px,180px 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Cinema22Mar25Web.jpg?w=375px&crop=0,3,375px,211px 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Cinema22Mar25Web.jpg?w=500px&crop=0,3,500px,281px 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Cinema22Mar25Web.jpg?w=640px&crop=0,3,640px,360px 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Cinema22Mar25Web.jpg?w=800px&crop=0,3,800px,450px 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Cinema22Mar25Web.jpg?w=980px&crop=0,3,980px,551px 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div>  <div class="mosaic__tile-rail"> <article id="article-548857" class="article article--rail article-- article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Barbara Hannigan needs to stop conducting while singing">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/barbara-hannigan-needs-to-stop-conducting-while-singing/"> <img width="200" height="113" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/LSO-Hannigan-Barbican-130325-1659.jpg?resize=200,113" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/LSO-Hannigan-Barbican-130325-1659.jpg?resize=1214,683 1214w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/LSO-Hannigan-Barbican-130325-1659.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/LSO-Hannigan-Barbican-130325-1659.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/LSO-Hannigan-Barbican-130325-1659.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/LSO-Hannigan-Barbican-130325-1659.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/LSO-Hannigan-Barbican-130325-1659.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/LSO-Hannigan-Barbican-130325-1659.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/richard-bratby/"> Richard Bratby </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/barbara-hannigan-needs-to-stop-conducting-while-singing/"> Barbara Hannigan needs to stop conducting while singing </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Classical </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Last week, Barbara Hannigan conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in Haydn, Roussel, Ravel and Britten, though to be honest she had me at Haydn. It’s still relatively unusual to encounter him in a symphonic concert, and more than one promoter has told me that Haydn is ‘box office poison’, which is a shocking description of</p> </div> </header>  </article> <article id="article-548860" class="article article--rail article-- article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Netflix’s Adolescence is seriously flawed">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/netflixs-adolescence-is-seriously-flawed/"> <img width="200" height="113" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Adolescence_UK_n_S1_E3_00_14_39_15-1.jpg?resize=200,113" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Adolescence_UK_n_S1_E3_00_14_39_15-1.jpg?resize=910,512 910w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Adolescence_UK_n_S1_E3_00_14_39_15-1.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Adolescence_UK_n_S1_E3_00_14_39_15-1.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Adolescence_UK_n_S1_E3_00_14_39_15-1.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Adolescence_UK_n_S1_E3_00_14_39_15-1.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Adolescence_UK_n_S1_E3_00_14_39_15-1.jpg?resize=800,450 800w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/james-walton/"> James Walton </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/netflixs-adolescence-is-seriously-flawed/"> Netflix’s Adolescence is seriously flawed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Television </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Bradley Walsh: Egypt’s Cosmic Code may sound like a pitch by Alan Partridge – but, impressively, the programme itself manages to be even odder than its title. Naturally, Tuesday’s opening episode began with Bradley emphasising that his interest in Ancient Egypt long predates his signing of the contract for the show. Indeed, it was back</p> </div> </header>  </article> <article id="article-548865" class="article article--rail article-- article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-left" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="I just don’t get P.G. Wodehouse">  <figure class="article__image article__image-left"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-just-dont-get-p-g-wodehouse/"> <img width="200" height="113" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GettyImages-1421273270.jpg?resize=200,113" class="ratio-16/9" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GettyImages-1421273270.jpg?resize=1774,998 1774w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GettyImages-1421273270.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GettyImages-1421273270.jpg?resize=375,211 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GettyImages-1421273270.jpg?resize=500,281 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GettyImages-1421273270.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GettyImages-1421273270.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GettyImages-1421273270.jpg?resize=980,551 980w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jenny-mccartney/"> Jenny McCartney </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Jenny McCartney" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-just-dont-get-p-g-wodehouse/"> I just don’t get P.G. Wodehouse </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">I have a confession to make, which may upset many readers. Having only a passing acquaintance with his books, I’ve long experienced a faint allergic reaction to the works of P.G. Wodehouse. It is, I think, to do with the mannered, heavily whimsical nature of his world; the circumlocutory sentences; the ‘right-ho’s and ‘dash it’s</p> </div> </header>  </article> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">18 Mar 2025</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="one-up"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-548768" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--book-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Fight or flight?: 33 Place Brugmann, by Alice Austen, reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/alice-jolly/"> Alice Jolly </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/fight-or-flight-33-place-brugmann-by-alice-austen-reviewed/"> Fight or flight?: 33 Place Brugmann, by Alice Austen, reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> More from Books </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">In May 1940, as the Nazis invade Belgium, the residents of a sedate apartment block in Place Brugmann, Brussels, wake to find that their longtime neighbours, the Raphaëls, have disappeared. Alice Austen uses this moment as the starting point for her subtle debut novel about how a diverse group of Belgians react to the Nazi</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/fight-or-flight-33-place-brugmann-by-alice-austen-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/10-Alice-Austen-credit-Joe-Mazza.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/10-Alice-Austen-credit-Joe-Mazza.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/10-Alice-Austen-credit-Joe-Mazza.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/10-Alice-Austen-credit-Joe-Mazza.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/10-Alice-Austen-credit-Joe-Mazza.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, 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<img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9Sliced-bread-Getty.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9Sliced-bread-Getty.jpg?resize=1001,667 1001w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9Sliced-bread-Getty.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9Sliced-bread-Getty.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9Sliced-bread-Getty.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9Sliced-bread-Getty.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9Sliced-bread-Getty.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9Sliced-bread-Getty.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure>  <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/olivia-potts/"> Olivia Potts </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/olivia_pots_.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Olivia Potts" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/olivia_pots_.png 880w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/olivia_pots_.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/olivia_pots_.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/olivia_pots_.png?resize=768,768 768w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/olivia_pots_.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/olivia_pots_.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/olivia_pots_.png?resize=200,200 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Or is it?’ That is the question David Wright poses about a keystone food that spans the globe and the whole of history. 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