Foreign Affairs Committee
Frost knocks on
Tugendhat tackles the Cabinet Office’s Mr Task Force Europe
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art