Artillery Row
A Vilnius descent
Progress only goes so far
Schumann/Mahler: Symphonies 1&2 (Naxos)
Schumann cannot be ignored
We are not so far from the Victorians
There is no cause for despair
Badgers complaining about foxes eating chickens
Some of the government’s critics need more introspection
Murders for October
A cornucopia of killings
Mobilisation
Christ, humanity and war
Do UK plans really threaten the Good Friday Agreement?
Here’s what the boss of Ireland Revenue had to say…
German foreign policy
Berlin’s Russian blunders
The conversion of Jeffrey Dahmer
How should we think about evil?
Grime and grandeur in the big, rotting Apple
The slick glitz of the UN General Assembly was smothered by a city on its knees
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
The case for more royals
This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
Very naughty boys
Progressive parenting is all very well but sometimes misbehaviour needs a firmer approach
