Who holds the power?
Literary reputations are made and broken by a self-appointed clique of bien pensant liberal intellectuals
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
Struggles of a veteran matador
Familiarity can make the heart grow cooler, but greatness can still prevail
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
Saving London from the czar
London’s nightlife could be great — but it needs real change
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
Why are we ignoring the slaughter in Sudan?
There is no excuse for indifference when we pay such close attention to other wars
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
