Egon Schiele
Love and death in Vienna
Spanish flu killed Schiele and Klimt. Their art sensed the brevity of life and the doom of their society
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
Teaching leftists about tax
Sometimes, an argument about economic policy is like an oil spill
In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret