Artillery Row

In-line, online, and where to draw the line

Notes on Colombo’s books and bookmen in the time of Covid-19

AA Gill wouldn’t have a hope in hell of winning his own award

Gill was one of the last of a breed of writers who wrote without looking over his shoulder

Franz Schmidt: 4th symphony (Berliner Philharmoniker recordings)

This is music that is going nowhere

Ghost of a Contrarian: Christopher Hitchens’s ‘Letters’ Revisited

Letters to a Young Contrarian: a twentieth century retrospective by a man who saw himself as a sixties radical

Royal legal cases: what if Harry and Meghan lose?

The Sussexes’ legal pursuits are less the straw that broke the camel’s back and more a gesture of defiance

Don’t kiss me, Kate: purging the American academy

Was Kate Pickering Antonova Twitter storm an unintended announcement of academia’s irrelevance?

Latex memories

Spitting Image (BritBox)

Letter from Washington: America’s pre-existing conditions

An unwell body politic must reckon with a sick president

My amendment achieved its aim

greater scrutiny will act as a discipline on ministers and their advisers

We have much to learn from nineteenth-century Russia

Since the Cold War we have, to our detriment, become increasingly blinded to the wisdom of the Old Russia