3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (223+ words) I’m not one for patriotism, but one of the things that does stir it in me is Chicken Shop Date, the YouTube series in which comedian Amelia Dimoldenberg flirts with various musicians and actors over chicken nuggets and chips. But…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (480+ words) Baruch Spinoza was born into a Jewish family that had fled from Portugal to the relative tolerance of Amsterdam. At the time of the herem, he was a merchant, importing nuts and fruits. Later he became a lens grinder; dust…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (215+ words) In 2002, in front of 500 people and a Channel 4 camera crew, Von Hagens conducted Britain’s first public autopsy in 170 years None of this deterred him. In the past 20 years, Von Hagens and his second wife Angelina Whalley curated further iterations of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (555+ words) On the train to Zurich I read a piece in the Times predicting that arts subjects will soon disappear from state schools altogether and will end up the preserve of private schools alone. There’s been a dramatic drop-off in teacher…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (381+ words) Apple’s big bang Prospect Magazine I noticed that all the appealing stuff seemed to be on Apple TV+. There’s Foundation, a sprawling space epic based on the Isaac Asimov stories; Pluribus, Vince Gilligan’s happy-clappy dystopia; Severance, probably last…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (122+ words) If this is where the story ended, and Dadd carried on making the same kind of work for the rest of his life—as polite society seemed enthusiastic for him to do—then we might have described him as an…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (498+ words) Earlier this month, pop star and actress Ariana Grande announced she was stepping back from the spotlight due to what a spokesperson called “endless, ongoing public scrutiny”. Essentially, this means she will no longer do media interviews, attend red carpet…...