Crewe
All aboard!
Tom Chesshyre picks his favourite British railways
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Murders for March
Sharp lines, twisting plots and colourful characters
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
