Our enemies bring our friends closer
How can antipathy focus the mind in international relations?
Challenging abortion shouldn’t be a crime
Shutting down pro-life protest restricts women’s freedom
The vampire’s mirror
The Undead: Dracula 125 years on
The original, best and shortest English opera
John Blow, Venus and Adonis; Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (HGO)
The NHS is a failed institution
New polling shows the British public is waking up to the shameful state of British healthcare
Gaspingly chic
The accoutrements of smoking are deathly cool
Keep calm and le Carré on
His pessimism about Britain proved untrue — and its own kind of comforting fantasy
Stop the Wark Coalition
BBC Radio has lost its purpose
The myth of the latest thing
Can Northern Irish politics evolve beyond nationalism and republicanism?
Narcisssism and the naked arts graduate
This call for an overhaul of the sex industry is self-indulgent and short-sighted
“Kindness” is killing compassion
If we go looking for problematic speech, we’ll probably find it
Such sweet sorrow
Lent is an ideal time to take pleasure in a gentle, contemplative and very English strand of musical melancholia