Artillery Row

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?

Who said feminists forgot about men?

Educating Caitlin Moran (and her critics)