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
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
