Colonialism and Slavery
The rise and fall of slavery in the Caribbean
Professor Jeremy Black on the reality of the slave economy created by the Caribbean’s European colonisers
Is the National Trust losing the nation’s trust?
If the National Trust is tired of promoting “heritage” what can be done to remind it of its purpose?
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
When real Rivals fought over TV
The hit adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel reflects the ITV franchise battles
Peston’s inbox
Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
