British Music
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Should we feel pity for the Pelicot accused?
To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
Crisis of leadership
No Tory can seriously expect conservatism from Kemi Badenoch
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
