Quaffing the cup that cheers
Readers should savour this book, as you might one of the delectable bottles that compose the enticing strophe of the book’s narrative
Chronicles of an epic egomaniac
Tackling Harold Bloom
Can the power of information be controlled?
The internet democratised speech but with the new Online Safety Bill, politicians and the media are trying to put the genie back in the bottle
Boris giveth and Boris taketh away
Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own
You probably don’t have PTSD
The danger of self-diagnosis
Spain and me
David Smith on why the years following Franco’s death will always hold a place in his heart
Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires Diary 8.0
Dominic Hilton meets a nun on national day and tries an Argentine MRI
Resch/Beethoven: String quartets (Genuin)
The Frankfurt-based Aris Quartet play Beethoven with sweeping flair and something close to insouciance
The guns of Brixton
I listened to somebody shoot a man twice in the head
The woodfired brick wall
It’s grim down south
The secret university
Jessica Douglas-Home recalls Roger Scruton’s risky but crucial work with dissident intellectuals in the Eastern Bloc
Cheeky blinder
Isobel Williams’s treatment of selected poems is literary charcuterie, as neat as it is naughty