Bodleian
In defence of knowledge
Richard Ovenden’s new book is a passionate defence of the sanctity of knowledge expressed through literature
Saved for posterity
John Bowers reviews Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries, by Rebecca Abrams and Cesar Merchan-Hamann
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
