Goethe
Twin totems of Teutonic angst
The German obsession with Goethe’s Faust and Shakespeare’s Hamlet
London’s lamps live on
Thanks to the dedication of the Gasketeers, a beautiful tradition has been saved
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Remember the Armenians
The West has turned its back on the world’s oldest Christian state
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
