Fiona Hill
The Favourite
Why Boris can’t bring himself to part with Dom
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
Rozsa’s regret
Miklos Rozsa: Orchestral works (Capriccio)
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
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
Good news is bad news for public health experts
It implies that there is no particular need to panic
