empathy
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
What’s the matter with women?
Perhaps they should be more like men
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
