Downton Abbey
Sock it to ‘em
Omicron-cancelled events and surprised marionettes
10 years of Downton Abbey
What insights can period dramas give us into the past?
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Sexy simplicity
For February, try a palette cleanse
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
