Seven indicators that show infections were falling before Lockdown 3.0
Data from seven different indicators establishes that infections were already in decline in England before the January lockdown
Inscrutable Wagner
Roger Scruton’s appreciation of Richard Wagner will remain an important and inexhaustible part of his legacy
Revisiting Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square
Hamilton first delivered this to his publishers 80 years ago in March 1941. What does a re-read of it tell us about the time that produced it?
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 4 and 6 (LSO Live)
Italian-born and London-bred Antonio Pappano lets the gentle rhythms of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s music say it all
You say it best when you say nothing at all
Nicola Sturgeon’s defence is impregnable because it concedes so little usable information
Nothing matters to careless people
The vigorous virtues are antique now
Hurst Castle could have been saved
Following the collapse of the sixteenth-century sea fort, Brice Stratford says that the disaster was completely avoidable
The woodfired brick wall
It’s grim down south
Henpecked Harry & Badgered Boris?
The Prince and the Prime Minister have more in common than we might think
Terry Rant
Ageing controversialist
An unrepentant serial killer
The Happy Traitor tells Blake’s story in a witty and sophisticated way, fully alert to its complexities and ironies