Artillery Row

Daniil Trifonov: Silver Age (DG)

This recording is an absolute must-hear, one of the summits of this difficult year

Between war and empire

Jeremy Black weighs in on two recent historiographical offerings

Dominic Cummings’s 2020 vision

Why didn’t Dom do data?

Down with the Crown

The Sussexes are just one minor factor among a number that could ultimately lead to the demise of the monarchy

The British Twitter Stasi

Police forces should not be secretly recording my tweets as ‘hate incidents’

Quiet, you’ll get yours in a minute

He’d have wanted “Dropping the Pilot”

“But is it good for the Jews?” Why Dom Cummings departure probably is

Toby Young was a huge fan of Dominic Cummings. The lockdown changed his mind

The writings of Lewis and Tolkien embody conservative environmentalism

The Conservative party were once the country party. They could be again. It might even net them some votes

Murders for the onset of shorter days

Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’

Seven kinds of people you find in bookshops

Former bookseller A.S.H. Smyth enjoys a bestselling bookshop owner’s taxonomy of bookshop people