Artillery Row

Bull market

José Tomás is a titan of the bullring, but does he live up to his reputation?

Ferdinand Ries: Piano Trio and Sextets (Hyperion)

Ludwig van Beethoven’s former secretary and pupil was no forgettable curiosity

Labour’s Wakefield win is nothing to crow over

Maybe turning Labour into the “some-women-have-penises” party isn’t such a popular electoral strategy after all

The LGBTQ+ monkeypox failure

Gay men have been failed by a lobby that trades in fear rather than facts

Irish reunification is a Remainer pipe dream

The Republic would be in no way equipped to absorb loyalist communities against their will

The People’s Republic of Worcester College

A student dares to cross the red quad and speak out about a shoddy show trial

Hen don’t

DANGER, women may be having fun in YOUR neighbourhood

We mustn’t repeal the Human Rights Act

The European Court of Human Rights is a necessary check against authoritarianism

Germany in the shadow of Napoleon

Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how the wars with revolutionary France reshaped the German lands

The dead city

Romanticism rising from the rubble