Artillery Row
Against constitutional obscurantism
Sorry, Parliament is sovereign
I wanna be black
The perils of self-identification
The big turn off
Declining audiences is a big problem for journalism
The epistle of St Dorries to the Sunakians
Do everything with grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure
Too light by half
Bernard Herrmann: Wuthering Heights (Chandos)
The lives of Mary Magdalene
A fine book explores her life and afterlife
Effective affinities
Moral philosophy, the individual and the future
Life through the kaleideologyscope
Must everything be reduced to political resentment?
Liberalism’s lion
Christopher Hitchens remains unforgettable
Calling time on closing times
Pubs should be allowed to stay open longer
Small talk and big asks
Men’s mental health is a serious matter — but it is wrong to expect people to be lifesavers
Religious freedom is back on the agenda
The International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill, currently before parliament, is an important step for securing Britain’s role in promoting religious liberty
Women in prisons deserve better
Classifying male criminals as women adds insult to injury
The government is failing Northern Ireland
Its reputation will be stained forever by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
