Earth
Dirty business
The myriad wonders of garden soil
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
