Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
A Phoenix rises
Professor Jo Phoenix’s legal triumph is also a triumph for free speech
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)