Chief of Staff
Et tu Baker?
Steve Baker’s call for Dominic Cummings to be sacked is a dramatic intervention
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
The EU must respect Britain’s borders
Freedom of movement for EU youth would threaten our security for no obvious gain
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
The menace of camouflage
There’s something dark about the spread of sartorial concealment to civilians
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
How the right went wrong
An ill-fated leadership campaign
Hahn and Gál: Music out of time
Two composers who stuck to their musical roots as the world turned
High priests of academia
The public are reading academic output, and they don’t like what they see
