In the court of the Mughal emperor
Why remember the embarrassing first steps of a giant?
The long shadow of the Great Helmsman
Frank Dikötter’s China is perpetually over-leveraged, over-producing and overdue a bust
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
