Seven years in China
COVID, nationalism and Beijing walls
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
