Artillery Row

The worrying rise of compelled speech in professional sport

The sports stars pushing back against the BLM movement

The Spy, the Scholar and the British Academy

David Cannadine’s thoughtful commentary of the Anthony Blunt affair utilises previously unpublished sources

Too many women are being murdered

Why crime writers need to move on from serial femicide

Bangkok’s revolt remains bloodless, for now

Is the tide turning against Thailand’s oligarchy?

Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Cello Concerto (CPO)

If Norman Lebrecht goes a month without hearing Weinberg he feels the loss

Dining out, dying out

Alexander Larman on William Sitwell’s luxurious history of eating out

Iraq’s year of assassinations

Power operates within a militia movement in which no one is invulnerable

Free speech, councillors and new disqualification rules

Proposed local government requirements would greatly impinge on freedom of speech

Letter from Washington: Biden delivers

2020 isn’t 2016 and Joe Biden isn’t Hillary Clinton

An incomplete history of the Swinging Sixties

Any history of the 1960s that neglects mass culture is not to be taken entirely seriously