Derailing the gravy train
The question of human rights, Christian morals and Western ethics has hitherto been an academic debate; now it is in the public arena
Fun in the sun
Summer finally appeared for the most civilised drinks event of the season
Nightmare on Starmer Street?
Bigger government is coming — but there is no avoiding it
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Contra Hitchens on the election
It was reasonable not to vote to prevent a Labour majority
Labour won’t survive unless it boosts living standards
People need hope that things can eventually get better
Illicit fun
Jonathan Leibowitz: Eastern Reflections (Delphian)
