Remember the Armenians
The West has turned its back on the world’s oldest Christian state
When the balloon goes up…
Can history teach us anything about growing Sino-American tension?
The dead city
Romanticism rising from the rubble
Joyous adventures in the absurd
A new performance of a Janacek opera takes one to the moon and back
Wagner rides again
A return to enchanted tradition in Siegfried at Longborough Festival Opera
The first post-modern war
The Falklands conflict was no imperialist throwback
Know your Ally
Just who are our plucky Ukrainian friends?
The strange death of the CDU
The decline of Angela Merkel’s party may return Germany to a Weimar-style splintered parliament
David Graeber (1961-2020)
A requiem for the radical anthropologist
Grace under pressure?
How effective have high-risk media events been for French foreign policy?
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
