Supporting multiculturalism is the natural conservative position
Attacking it attacks the very essence of Britishness
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
