Fear in a time of Covid
Manipulating public emotion is a dangerous and costly exercise
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
