Backstop
Creative ambiguity in a hall of mirrors
Are the mixed messages of the Internal Market Bill accident or design?
Dreamy spires
Oxford’s brilliant modern buildings
Britain, 2049
You’ll own nothing, and you won’t be particularly happy about it
Erwin Schulhoff: Violin sonatas (Orfeo/FHR)
Virtuosity amidst violence
The original, best and shortest English opera
John Blow, Venus and Adonis; Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (HGO)
The American nightmare
America’s toxic racial politics cannot be allowed to take root in Britain
Rolling back into town
The world’s greatest band return to Liverpool — do they still have it?
Ethiopia’s sacred tablets must remain in Britain
With thousands dying in Tigray, why is Parliament discussing ancient relics?
Tough talk, no action on trans activist policy
While ministers wriggle out of responsibility, children are suffering
The unification of Germany
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the path of German unification, from the failed revolutions of 1848 to the creation of Bismarck’s Reich
The Beatles: occasionally fab four
Their output was more mixed than many critics would like to believe
Amour fou of the star-crossed lovers
The relationship between Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh was one of all-consuming passion