Burned by political expedience
Clandon Park remains a shell after it was gutted by fire six years ago. Now the National Trust is telling a one-sided story about its past
Are knitted jumpers racist?
Why has the social media fashion trend ‘Dark Academia’ been criticised for being ‘too white’?
The judge inside, and on your shoulder
The Public First case is the first in which the application of the apparent bias doctrine to procurement is brought to the fore
Repeat after me
Social Work England are making people choose between their jobs and what they know to be true
Infinite enjoyment
Duff Cooper understood wine’s power as ‘firm friend and wise councillor’
Dazzled by manias and lured by wild gambling
The drives behind the Victorian periodical press and penny literature
Nikolai Kapustin: 4th piano concerto (Capriccio)
Listening to Kapustin in 2021 is an act of nostalgia, a gesture of defiance to the dictates of fashion
In defence of reading diaries
We experience people at their most depressed and their most joyful; their most selfish and their most generous
Crake and ales
Patrick Galbraith hears a rare bird but fails with the rod
Alice Sara Ott: Echoes of Life (DG)
Alice Sara Ott gives Frederic Chopin’s preludes a “dazzling” contemporary twist
Where does American strategy go from here?
What are the strategic options for American defence policy following the Afghanistan withdrawal?
Scheherazade scoops the pot
Women now dominate the literary landscape