Anzac
Palin was a rare Radio 4 treat
The triumph of Michael Palin’s Book of the Week and the tragedy of Radio 4 comedy
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
