Artillery Row
The original, best and shortest English opera
John Blow, Venus and Adonis; Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (HGO)
Cleaning up
The fate of a Whitehall cleaner, Emanuel Gomes, should not be brushed aside
Did prayer decide the Battle of Goose Green?
The expedition to take back the Falkland Islands was riskier than we might think
Some very healthy early music canaries
Helen Charlston & Toby Carr; Siglo de Oro (LFBM, St John’s, Smith Sq)
Transports de joie
En route back to childhood at the Wallace Collection
Inadequately in office
Are there any Tories in the Tory party?
Children’s mental health crisis
Using our kids to virtue signal adult politics fuels anxiety and depression
Why is TalkTV failing?
Monotonous boomer bait creates apathy, not outrage
Sunak leads the retreat
A windfall tax is apparently not a windfall tax if the Tories introduce it
The roots of Germany
Jeremy Black discusses German identity in the 700 years between Charlemagne and the Reformation
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
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
