Ceremony
The republican anti-aesthetic
The most uninspiring, mundane movement
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
The campaign against National Conservatism is a disgrace
A peaceful conference is facing state and activist intimidation
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
