Artillery Row
Why does this record exist?
Wilhelm Furtwängler: 2nd symphony (Chandos)
On the bull’s side
To appreciate bullfighting is to admire the bull
Come off it, Stonewall
The group has long been an unreliable guide to the law
Why banks collect art
What started as one banker’s obsession is now an €850 million asset — and a powerful branding tool
There’s no evidence for menu calorie counts
Calorie counts on menus are thoughtless puritanism, masquerading as science
A son of Saint Augustine
Christians hoping for a spiritual leader have cause for optimism
Where the wild things aren’t
England’s green and pleasant land has become a cultural battleground
The irrational theatre
The state of the National Theatre is tragic indeed
The female body is not the problem
Female fertility should not be reduced to something to manipulate
Why can nobody paint the Royals?
Looking at this weak likeness on Tatler’s glossy cover, Britain will draw a blank
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it