The intoxicating fizz of success
English wines add something unique to the world’s spectrum of flavours
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
Parents are being hypocritical about smartphones
Yes, kids use their phones too much, but what about adults?
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
