Bill Bryson
A return to Lord’s
Two years on from the gripping World Cup Final, there are few pops and bangs this year at Lord’s
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Prince
Is he simply a desperate chancer, or a genuine threat to British interests?
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
