Christmas
The Revolution in the stable
We abandon the incarnation at our peril
Merry race-baiting
Black Lives Matter is dreaming of a black Christmas
London gossip, Dickensian Christmasses and experimental castles
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Robert Thicknesse, Alexander Larman and Charles Saumarez Smith
The art of fast food
Empty shelves need not mean dreary eating
Unexpected music and a crisis of theology
The Critic Narrated: Episode Six, with Sarah Ditum and David Scullion
Santa’s unspeakable sack
Why are publishers so sniffy about stocking fillers?
Cheer leaders
Opera unswervingly believes in the potential for a divine spark in humans, says Robert Thicknesse
Lo! He comes with clouds descending
The news is Good and should be celebrated
Christmas shows us why lives are worth saving
Like the ancient world, we have an inability to explain or even value ourselves
Bored to tiers
Alice Cockerell proposes a drinking game to help deal with those who can’t stop talking about Covid-19
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Eighteen questions for Kim Leadbeater
Questions that all MPs should be asking
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
Cometh the hour, cometh the dealmaker
Trump’s ego might be just what the world needs
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
