Cardinal Newman
The apostate saint
He was right all along
Michael Bentley reviews The Englightenment that Failed by Jonathon Israel
The prophet who didn’t do people
Friedrich von Hayek became “Hayek”, a cardboard cut-out representation.
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
Should we feel pity for the Pelicot accused?
To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
