Artillery Row

Who told Boris to make Claire Fox a peer and why?

Johnathan Ball was three years old, Tim Parry was twelve

The fear of the fever: how we are now living the authentic Victorian experience

Covid-19 is bringing us closer to the Victorians more than any recreation of an 1830s London townhouse ever could

Bridge Over Troubled Water: 50 Years On

Half a century on, the song remains an an eternally affecting evocation of the need for solidarity and comfort

Footnoting the Belfast Agreement’s invisible annex

Owen Polley reviews Breaking Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland by Feargal Cochrane

How I discovered Germany

Daniel Johnson on how he found a lost love for the Germans

Nikolai Kapustin, Alfred Schnittke: Cello Concertos (Capriccio)

I can imagine Kapustin in the background, smiling at his piano, during this breath-taking revival

Why do women matter so little?

The outrageous policing of political speech by Wiltshire Police

Social media giants are platforms, not publishers

Conservatives who dislike Twitter’s politics shouldn’t make things worse

Keep your luxury hotels

It’s the cheap and cheerful taverns that offer a home for any traveller

Flight COVID-19 is now boarding

The grimness of my flight to Delhi bespoke the special cruelty of this crisis