Artillery Row
Open the royal files
A culture of gratuitous opacity surrounds the Royal Family
Unenticing overtures
Rautavaara: 3rd piano concerto (Bis); Overtures from Finland (Chandos)
A class act?
Polly Toynbee’s memoirs test the reader’s patience
Justification by merit alone?
The American Dream is a national theology foundered on the rocks of race and meritocracy
Jumping to conclusions, twice
Morality matters as well as the law
Cops, guns and judges
What the Supreme Court’s ruling on firearms officers means
Sunak drifts towards irrelevance
The PM seems to have no ambitions beyond not being Liz or Boris
A movement to where?
What, if anything, is “right-wing” art?
Travel and terror — trains in World War Two
From the Western Front to the Holocaust
Out of the Ashes (w/ Nick Timothy)
Will England triumph in 2023?
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
Best bets for Cheltenham
My racing tips for Cheltenham
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
A time for restoration
An interview with David Starkey
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
The awkward truth about sex and free speech
More women should realise that “inclusivity” should not come before freedom
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
