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
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
Doublespeak about assisted suicide
The campaign for assisted suicide is distinctly Orwellian
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
