Artillery Row

Why are poor people so much nicer than rich people?

It’s a broad generalisation – but the author can only go off his extensive experiences bouncing between the developing and developed worlds

Alexander Tchaikovsky: Quarantine Symphony (Toccata Classics)

Alexander Tchaikovsky’s Quarantine Symphony triggers a subtle, wordless response to the things we are experiencing

Et tu, Brute?

I shouldn’t have read through the list of my accusers, but I did

Letter from Washington: Biden’s biggest problem

Immigration is a fraught issue for the president

Why is atheism no longer cool?

How the New Atheists failed to make God go away

Are knitted jumpers racist?

Why has the social media fashion trend ‘Dark Academia’ been criticised for being ‘too white’?

Why can Hollywood never get the King Arthur story right?

Like natural disasters, adaptations of the Arthurian legend seem to arrive about once a decade and leave devastation in their wake

Policing offence

There’s nothing like a beating stick to ram home a lie

Churchill as warlord – how good a strategist was he?

Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Winston Churchill’s role in shaping British and the Allies’ military strategy in the Second World War

Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies

The reaction to the BBC Woman’s Hour interview with Zara Mohammed exposes the cliquishness of contemporary feminists