Don’t sever the head
How the cultural shift and a departure from central purposes risks making the Church unrecognisable to the grassroots members who support it
Pick of the bunch
Garden flowers are for posies
Pay poor countries to take refugees
A nobel prize winner tackles a growing problem
Dead and buried
Why has a much-needed review into coroner’s services been shelved?
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Violin sonatas (Naxos)
Ten minutes of Villa-Lobos and you’re ready for carnival
Free to make bad decisions
Surrogacy bans set sexist restrictions on women’s bodies
Victim at sixty
How much has really changed in the film industry since the Dirk Bogarde film “came out”?
Classic mistake
Is Latin a dead language?
The calamitous course of history
Reading Doom might not save us, but it leaves us with a better appreciation of the complex politics of catastrophe
Mission Accomplished!
It’s important not to try too hard to remember what was and wasn’t illegal during the various lockdowns
Knees-up
England footballers don’t own the meaning of their pre-match gesture