The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
