Artillery Row

Elgar’s excellence

Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)

On conservative despair

It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss

The unromantic truth about tortured poets

Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets

Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools

Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades

Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo

A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood

Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?

It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry

A wilting wallflower

A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West

A Labour of unrequited love

It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party

How NatCon was saved

An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains

Has Israel walked into a forever war?

A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon