Artillery Row
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
