blood sport
Ancient rites in Madrid
The oldest of stories still attract us
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Prince
Is he simply a desperate chancer, or a genuine threat to British interests?
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
