Emanuel de Witte
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
Murders for July
The most gripping and grisly detective novels of the month, from Devon to Orkney
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Is Beer the solution to all of life’s problems?
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — And How The World Lost its Mind. By Dan Davies
Athenian ambrosia
Savour a culinary renaissance in Greece
Two-tier policing is not new
Our authorities must operate without fear or favour again
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
The warp and weft of women’s history
This synthesising project downplays the variety of experience amongst ancient women
