Adding injury to insult
The role of criminal law is to punish harm, not enforce politeness
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
Did we get Brexit done?
Brexit is unfinished, yes, but the potential is enormous
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Why we all feel let down
Reflecting upon the corrosive power of disillusionment in politics and why our leaders are virtue vacuums who lack both competence and character
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
The dark future of free media in Europe
A French news channel has been fined for airing unchallenged negative views about migration and climate change
Save us from the menopause mystique
“Menopausal” products make life more rather than less alienating
A right-wing youthquake?
Optimism about the zoomer right is premature
