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Walled garden wines
Exploring a 2,000-bottle-a-year vineyard
Sorry, Suella, we do have blasphemy laws
It would be naive to think freedom of speech is safe
Murders for March
A sinister start to the spring
(Some) Writers Wanted
The drive for diversity can lead to discrimination
Pains and pleasures of anticipation
The best sort of debut isn’t actually the author’s first book
Empire by way of Europe
A new book places the quest to keep Algeria French squarely at the centre of European integration
A camp icon
The paradoxes of Trump’s truth-telling
Putin, Shute and nukes
How much should we fear nuclear war?
Normandy’s English connection
The region combines ancient and modern splendours with an eye turned ever northwards
The making of a multi-national state
What the Scots and Irish brought to Westminster
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
