Galley Beggar
Independent minds
Small local publishers are putting out the brightest and best new work
You can’t handle the chaos
Gove? Mitchell Gove? Sorry, Michael? No, never heard of him, why?
Resch/Beethoven: String quartets (Genuin)
The Frankfurt-based Aris Quartet play Beethoven with sweeping flair and something close to insouciance
Murder on the Dancefloor?
Government plans to send undercover police into nightclubs are absurd and destructive
Novel weapons
Could we be unwittingly researching both sides of a hypersonic arms race?
April 2021: Letters to the Editor
David Starkey missed the Welsh Government’s slave trade project which is littered with errors and relies heavily on Wikipedia
Have queens enjoyed the same authority as kings?
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the role of the queen in British and European history
Britain’s armed forces during the rise of Hitler
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the state and preparedness of Britain’s armed forces in the lead-up to the Second World War
Anatomy of disaster
The psychology of political incompetence is brought out well in Niall Ferguson’s Doom
Will US Catholic bishops go for the sacramental jugular?
Joe Biden may be told he can no longer accept Holy Communion if he continues advocating for abortion
Stop mining!
Deeper data shafts just produce useless piles of waste