The beauty and the bomb
Barbenheimer is a true cinematic event
Cambridge in decline?
Censorious tendencies have not conquered the university yet
How Evelyn Waugh saved the English country house
The improbable democratisation of an aristocratic institution
Degrading Dickens
How the BBC lowered expectations
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
