No place for idealists
A highly informative history of ideas let down by a drumbeat of liberal bias
The morality of altruism
People have a limitless capacity to convince themselves that what’s right coincides with what’s best for them
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
The Post Office scandal
Legislation to resolve the injustice is not as straightforward as it seems
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
