Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Lording it over us
Cameron may not be a welcome sight, but we should celebrate the return of peers to the cabinet
Our true European home
With Brexit settled, Britain must seek to engage with its unalterably European cultural heritage and identity
Rebuilding a monarchy and a nation
Austrian lessons for the reign of Charles III
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
