The secret war of a wolf in chic clothing
Dudley Clarke had his fingers in many of the most interesting pies of covert operations in World War II
Losing the battle, losing the war
The most pernicious effect of aligning art with political activism is that the distinction between the two is lost
Trumped up charges
Trump’s guilty verdict is a catastrophe for American public life
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
When the Left thought free trade meant peace
Socialists, communists and liberals were united by a conviction that free trade could, and would, promote democracy and justice
Remember the Armenians
The West has turned its back on the world’s oldest Christian state
Bureaucrazy
Why grades can go up even as standards go down
Steering clear of titfer tat
We now are seeing the first flowering of a head-dress renaissance
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
Why Meghan is my role model
The public needs to get to know the real Meghan
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
