Cornelia van der Poll
Cornelia van der Poll is a Lecturer in Ancient Greek at Oxford.
Restore Trust
Many members have decided to walk away and leave the National Trust to its fate. They need to come back
Portraits in cowardice
Conservative MPs need to rediscover their spines if they want to be effective
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas