Joe Baron
Joe Baron is a teacher and writer.
London’s lamps live on
Thanks to the dedication of the Gasketeers, a beautiful tradition has been saved
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
Nova’s diary: Everything’s different now
Rishi is helping our neighbour, Big Jeremy, with his sums
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors