Artillery Row
He Khan’t do anything wrong
The Mayor of London faces little accountability for problems in the city
Women make the best women
Biology, not clothes and hair, is key to womanhood
A world in transition
Valentin Bibik: Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Indésens)
The genealogy of nuclear fear
How the world turned against nuclear energy and rationalism
Satan’s sedition
Liberty, license and Milton’s multifaceted allegory for Oliver Cromwell
The tyranny of beauty
We all enjoy a looker, but that does not justify rampant discrimination
No place on the ARC for environmentalism
Stewardship of nature is a proper and appealing conservative cause
The spectre of suicide
Against the weaponisation of youthful suffering
Questions in the case of Indi Gregory
Was the evidence, and the law, as clear as it seemed?
The sugar tax leaves a bitter taste
The evidence for an effect on health is dubious to non-existent
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
