Beeching Cuts
Beeching’s brutal legacy
The wounds of our lost railways still linger
All aboard!
Tom Chesshyre picks his favourite British railways
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
