Archives
King Charles’s ruthless revenge
Whilst the traitors are swiftly rounded up and dispatched, a handful remain at large
A resounding defeat
Can Truss turn things around?
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sixth Symphony (Hyperion/ICA Classics)
As shattering as any work of its era
Some perspective on the budget
British prospects are not as bad as they seem
Violence against history
An aggressively one-sided book
Tolkien and environmentalism
The author of The Lord of the Rings despaired of the modern world
Eddie Izzard uses the ladies loo in Sheffield
It’s about a man’s power over women
Bleeding the Russian bear white
Britain, the US and the War in Ukraine
Imagine a world without lawyers on Twitter
The case of the Colston statue
What to do with Channel 4
It could be a force for soft power
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
