In the obsession with infection metrics, we seem to have lost sight of what’s important about school itself

In an attempt to ‘decolonise the curriculum’, California may vote to promote the celebration of pre-Christian deities who often performed human sacrifice

Stanchinsky occupies a tonal territory midway between Rachmaninov and Scriabin; an amalgam of suppurating misery and crackpot visionary

Dominic Hilton offends the fumigation guy and witnesses the death of a former President

Radio drama is prone to over-signalling regional differences, says Anne McElvoy

How the way we manufactured glass changed the world of alcohol

Hamilton first delivered this to his publishers 80 years ago in March 1941. What does a re-read of it tell us about the time that produced it?

This biography on Sir Stanley Rous and sport in the twentieth century is scholarly, balanced and well-written, says Lincoln Allison

Calls to change public life to protect women set a bad precedent for the way in which we view women’s freedom

Does Trudy Harrison still think opponents of the coal mine are in cloud cuckoo land?