How I discovered Germany
Daniel Johnson on how he found a lost love for the Germans
How I discovered secondhand books
A home with books is a launching pad for a life well lived, says Daniel Johnson
How I discovered History
Remembering the Six Day War and history lessons from Dick Crossman
How I discovered Art and Architecture
Daniel Johnson reflects on the great discoveries of his youth
How I discovered classical music
Daniel Johnson describes the joy of indulging in music as a teenage boy
Myths of the Prophet Max
Daniel Johnson on the life and work of Max Weber, whose controversial views on democracy still resonate today
A path open to us all
Daniel Johnson reviews Wagner’s Parsifal, by Roger Scruton
A brave voice against the barbarians
David Pryce-Jones recalls a life of literary friendships and the defence of Western civilisation
The twin prophets of pessimism
The novelist and the philosopher linked by a common fascination with despair
A very English intellectual
For all his European frame of reference George Steiner stayed in Cambridge for a very good reason
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
The Susie Green light
Businesses should not be legitimising the controversial CEO
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
