George Martin
Are the Beatles still underrated?
If Lennon and McCartney had never met, Britain would have been more boring and less colourful
The myth of Abbey Road
Abbey Road is less a cornerstone of the Beatles’ legend than its tombstone
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Is “love is love” only for white people?
The Tories have suddenly discovered the book of Leviticus
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
