blood sports
Thank fox I’m not a QC
Why I stood up to Jolyon Maugham, Twitter’s blocker-in-chief
Arvo Pärt: Works for Choir (Cugate Classics)
The 40 minutes of music on this album is alternately hypnotic and uplifting
The cacophonous Mr Chips
A good field guide, but it won’t make you fall in love with the gull next door
Correcting the record
Claims in Janine di Giovanni’s article reflect poorly on me professionally and need correcting
Louis XIV: a monarch of purpose
Despite its length, Philip Mansel’s biography of the Sun King is ‘a welcome prize for any reviewer’
New rules
Policing the spirit of the law
Pleasures of the plague year
Lisa Hilton welcomes the locals back to Venice and enjoys a spicy nod to the city’s vibrant past
I’m not going to panic because I don’t do that anymore
I feel like you’re being sabotaged by your inner saboteur
A fanatic heart
On the 50th anniversary of his public suicide, Nigel Jones reflects on the strange life and bizarre death of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima
Tom Stoppard: A private man now on parade
This biography is a testament to detailed analysis and intelligent insight, says Alexander Larman
We must get serious about being intolerant of intolerance
History is clear: excepting blasphemy from freedom of expression causes far more and far greater suffering than it prevents