Artillery Row

Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy

It is good for women and it is good for children

She wants to be in America

🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶

A festival of losing

Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?

The shame of the Oxford Union

A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace

Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?

The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close

Is public religion the new heresy?

It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions

A life of indulgence

Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career

Butterfield’s glorious vindication

Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture

A full-blooded blow-out

Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)

A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer

You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse