Lord Waldegrave
Lord Waldegrave has been Provost of Eton since 2009
Rescue specialist
He had a particular skill with those who had fallen foul of the system
Jerusalem: cradle of lost peace
In the Holy Land coexistence was a fragile dream, built on unstable foundations
Cancelled at Cannes
Sidelining the creator of a national movement is pure, unashamed revisionism
Some very healthy early music canaries
Helen Charlston & Toby Carr; Siglo de Oro (LFBM, St John’s, Smith Sq)
Sibelius: 7 symphonies and Tapiola (Decca)
A fresh, ambitious and daring approach to the familiar Finn
Illiteracy of the tax-cut lobby
Slashing taxes cannot make a nation better off. Instead we must increase production
Stormont desperately needs reform
The interests of Northern Irish voters are being sacrificed to the perceived needs of the peace process
My days as a Chinese spy
A mysterious 72 hours in Hong Kong for a lucrative lobbying job ended up being something much more sinister…
The Critic Books Podcast: Roaring Girls
The extraordinary lives of history’s unsung heroines
Singing Shane’s praises
A man with an appetite for victory, and everything else too