Artillery Row
The unmaking of the Athenaeum
The venerable club is being spoiled by ideology
The sad reign of Ian Hislop
Appointed for his youth, he has become symbolic of cultural gerontocracy
Beyond the spires
Oxford is full of architectural riches
Album of the year
The best of an inspiringly musical 2023
Do not forget Armenia
Why has an act of blatant ethnic cleansing been widely ignored?
What’s missing in Bradley Cooper’s Maestro
The film should not have ignored the political and musical context to Bernstein’s life
Murders for December
A cornucopia of killings for the Christmas season
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s doomed Europe
His writing beautifully describes the older Europe that we lost
The American decade
The 1990s marked post-Cold War triumph for the States, but choppy waters were ahead
The death of dystopia
Fictional nightmares can provide childish escapism rather than harsh truths
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
Plagiarism: a racist weapon
It has been genuinely disturbing to see Claudine Gay ousted simply for being an empowered black woman
In defence of British theological education
Critics should be more optimistic about the new generation of ordinands
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
