Drivers
Something in the Bath water
Liberal Democrats are ruining a beautiful city with pointless regulations and Remainer spite
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
Is public health a protected belief?
A new case will decide if prohibitionism in the name of public health constitutes a philosophical belief under the Equality Act
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
