Auberon Waugh
Quaffing the cup that cheers
Readers should savour this book, as you might one of the delectable bottles that compose the enticing strophe of the book’s narrative
Nicholas Parsons vs Auberon Waugh
How Parsons won a battle of wits
A keen nose and sharp prose
David Womersley reviews Waugh on Wine by Auberon Waugh
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
In praise of the viola
Cantabile: Anthems for viola (Delphian)
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
The conversion of St Lee
Never mind migrants converting, what about the MPs?
Pseudoscience exacerbates the burden of disease
Victims of ME deserve better than dopey Dragons and ear seeds
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
