What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
