The drug war’s Neville Chamberlain
Decriminalising cannabis is the last thing London’s young people need
Why are Dublin and Brussels killing off the peace process?
The Northern Ireland Protocol is the Belfast Agreement’s gravest threat
Grappling with evil
Historians are better placed to explain malicious acts than philosophers, who strive to subordinate them to reason
The elephant in the classroom
Imagining itself to be impartial, the “neutral” RE curriculum imposes its own claim
Scenting success
The wondrous whiff of sex, spice and civet
A matter of judgement
One man’s observance of the spirit is another’s technical breach
To critique the critic
Harold Rosenberg’s mixed legacy counterbalanced both Communism and formalism
Feminists, F1 rivalries and couples therapy
The Critic Narrated: Episode Five, with David Starkey, Boris Starling and Claudia Savage-Gore
Renaud Capucon: Un violon à Paris (Warner Classics)
Taken together, it’s not the kind of music you want to hear in isolation
Time to forget?
Remembrance day is like an arts and craft spin-off of the Great British Bake-Off
Criminalising Christians
Activists demand the most religiously repressive law the UK has seen in centuries
Labour’s chance at last?
Starmer ends 2021 ahead in the polls with Boris Johnson on the ropes