The Conservatives must learn from their failures
Our failure was predictable and must not be repeated
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
