Artillery Row

Back to school: The urgent need for normality

In the obsession with infection metrics, we seem to have lost sight of what’s important about school itself

The Aztec revival in California’s public schools

In an attempt to ‘decolonise the curriculum’, California may vote to promote the celebration of pre-Christian deities who often performed human sacrifice

Alexei Stanchinsky: Piano works (Ondine)

Stanchinsky occupies a tonal territory midway between Rachmaninov and Scriabin; an amalgam of suppurating misery and crackpot visionary

Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires diary 5.0

Dominic Hilton offends the fumigation guy and witnesses the death of a former President

The sparkling revolution

How the way we manufactured glass changed the world of alcohol

Revisiting Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square

Hamilton first delivered this to his publishers 80 years ago in March 1941. What does a re-read of it tell us about the time that produced it?

Women need to demand freedom, not safety

Calls to change public life to protect women set a bad precedent for the way in which we view women’s freedom

A principled non-resignation

Does Trudy Harrison still think opponents of the coal mine are in cloud cuckoo land?

Renato and Me

David Smith recalls his association with Renato Curcio, the former leader of Italy’s ultra-left terrorist group the Red Brigades

What would MLK say in an age of Covid-19 segregation?

Many people may soon be facing a choice between civil disobedience and Covid-19 restrictions, for which the words of America’s iconic civil-rights leader remain boldly relevant