Coldplay
What happened to sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll?
Music today is anodyne compared to the heydays of Britpop and the sixties and seventies
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
