Artillery Row
The world’s last measured moments
Joseph Haydn: Symphonies 93-95
The Dear Leader and the gnome
Friendship between the Kremlin and North Korea is no joke
High-octane despair
Das Rheingold, Royal Opera House
The fantasy world of Anglo-Afrocentrism
History is being twisted for political purposes
Flourish we must
British conservatives must focus on action over rhetoric
The death of the literary feud
When writers become fighters
Leo Varadkar is a coward and a hypocrite
Tip-toeing around Republican crimes is obscuring modern history
The study and the slaughter
Geopolitics as a rhetoric of power
Why don’t women always go to the police?
The legal system fails victims
Guilt, innocence and suspicion
The presumption of innocence cannot only have a strict legal meaning
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
