Cocktails
The spirit of Lent
If you must forego wine, try cocktails instead
Hail Mary
A Bloody Mary is perfect at almost any time of day and in every kind of weather
Colour conundrum
A lasting love-affair with Chartreuse
Cool enough for Cary
Christopher Pincher offers some simple rules to stick to for cocktail-drinking
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
The paper tiger and the Russian bear
NATO’s naive and supine response will not drive Putin’s army from Ukraine and emboldens Moscow still further
The West needs more decisive diplomacy
Diplomatic vacillation is enabling the spread of armed conflict
The only way is up
It’s narrow, man, a narrow path to victory
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
