Twilight with Venus
Henry Miller spent the last four years of his life hopelessly in love with a Playboy model 60 years his junior
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Only abortion is like abortion
Don’t tack on abortion to create an impression of progressive goodness
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
