Castles
Normandy’s English connection
The region combines ancient and modern splendours with an eye turned ever northwards
The Fortified Palace
Professor Jeremy Black talks about the fortified palaces and manor houses of the sixteenth century
The ultimate luxury
Clive Aslet says the Barclay brothers were prescient when they built their grand private castle on Brecqhou. Today, true privacy is something only serious money can buy
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
Murders for March
Sharp lines, twisting plots and colourful characters
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Against gorpcore
We have to develop and embrace aesthetics that inspire the imagination
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
