Antartica
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 7 & 9 (Hallé)
VW will never catch on beyond Anglophiles — ask not the reason why
Antarctic adventure
From the submarine service to the world’s southernmost sub-post office, A S H Smyth interviews Sally Owen, a Falklands-based dentist who also helps to conserve the historic sites of Antarctica
Research and rescue
The Falkland Islands bids farewell to the RSS James Clark Ross and a Marylebone gallery hosts a virtual exhibition of Antarctic photographs
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
