Coastal Grandmother
On HM service
Hannah Betts hails Hayley Menzies’s gear for grown-ups
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
