George Frideric Handel
Wildest dreamland
It’s the perfect medium for the End Times, unequalled in its devotion to doom
Sunak leads the retreat
A windfall tax is apparently not a windfall tax if the Tories introduce it
The victorious sign
What relationship should Christianity have with politics?
A real nice clambake
The American classic is fine street-party fare
Tanks a lot
“War is the original human state,” Russian directors seem to say
A heartbreaking work of staggering narcissism
Grace Lavery reveals the delusions of transgender ideology
Hail Mary
A Bloody Mary is perfect at almost any time of day and in every kind of weather
The religion of self-worship
Rowan Williams calls it a “sacred journey” — but trans ideology is a new faith altogether
This is not the time to appease Iran
Iranians are risking their lives to bring down their theocratic regime
Don’t blame Britain
Obsessing over the sins of empire only serves to hide the flaws of dysfunctional modern states
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 7 & 9 (Hallé)
VW will never catch on beyond Anglophiles — ask not the reason why