You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
Criminalising prayer protects no one
Laws against so-called conversion therapy are threatening the freedom of belief
Banning prayer is beyond the Scottish Government’s powers
Holyrood has vastly exceeded its remit
Criminalising Christians
Activists demand the most religiously repressive law the UK has seen in centuries
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
