David Dimbleby
I’m done with po-faced politicians
We have long since lost the spirit of 1983
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
The lies of Sinn Fein
Sectarian smears against Unionists have been exposed as the falsehoods they always were. Will anyone bother to say sorry?
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
The public health fanatics have a new enemy in their sights
