Hard Labour
Industrial scale drinking, courting communists and winning the “Golden Bollock”
Broken eggs, no omelette
Baroness Williams believed until she died that comprehensive schools fostered equality. Her folly has only entrenched class privilege
Democracy muzzled
Peter Hitchens says Covid masks are a potent symbol of the West’s headlong flight from Enlightenment values
Remember them more honestly
We should change the way we commemorate our war dead
A roaring monster
Letters from the Falklands front: Trauma and machismo continue to define the Malvinas issue in Argentina
The German Reformation
Professor Jeremy Black discusses the effect that Martin Luther and the Reformation had on the German lands in the sixteenth century
Joining the dots on sexism
Parliament’s creepy sexualised culture resurrects throwback stereotypes
Being Boris
Johnson still expects Tory MPs to love him
Bombastic lecture on the evil empire
From the suppression of colonial documents, Caroline Elkins spins a tale of violence
Hans Winterberg: orchestral works (Capriccio)
The lost sounds of a German Jewish composer
Ben Fogle: Pukka prince of fluff
His films are overrated, overindulged, and dismal
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 1 / Moments Musicaux
A new release of Rachmaninov’s first piano sonata deserves more than five stars
The decline of the UK art market
The UK’s prominence as a place to buy and sell the most prestigious art is under sustained threat
A Room with a Feud
What happened to robust — and, yes, rude — literary criticism?
Tribes of Westminster
Steve Baker MP, Christian Libertarian