Desserts
Sweet magic in Hokkaido
Sushi for breakfast, crisps for dessert and delicious chocolate
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
When real Rivals fought over TV
The hit adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel reflects the ITV franchise battles
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
