The silent treatment
Physical “conversion therapy” is already illegal, so any new sanctions will be aimed at criminalising conversations
Stabbed for critiquing Islam
This is not the first time Hatun has been assaulted at Speakers’ Corner
The war on normativity
Chris Pratt is a man caught in the middle of a growing rift between two Americas
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
The chance introduction that led to some extraordinary evenings with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Knit picking
The invisible knitting of Michelle Obama led to the cancellation of Kristy Glass
Match made in heaven
Once a habit that cut across class, smoking is now masochistic comfort for the dispossessed
The fanatical commissar of killing
An engaging and thoroughly readable new biography on Boris Savinkov
Brahms: Clarinet sonatas (BIS), French clarinet music (Delphian)
Three sonatas by Brahms? The clarinet adaptation, to no surprise, doesn’t work
House of fun
The Cosmic House breaks through the orthodoxies of modernism with its game-playing, colour and ornament
O blind new world
Behind modernity’s moralistic exhortations lies a cold-blooded mania for total control
Rooms with a view
Will the law protect owners of high-rise flats from happy-snapping tourists?
Return to Reith
Why conservatives need to do more than bash the Beebs