Artillery Row

The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo 

The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship

Not another one!

How might the run-up to the next general election look?

Saltburn and the significance of sound

Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?

Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs

The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media

J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom

Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love

Ferrari and the terrible joy

Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us

A passage to Istria

Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast

Laid-back Bach

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)

For whom the road tolls

Did turnpike roads transform travel in the 18th century? Or were they a means for rent-seeking?

The scandal of screens

Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side