grammar schools
Shirley Williams – her legacy for education
Shirley Williams secured a selective school for her own daughter – but did not understand why other parents might want that choice
Before and after gould
Bach’s Goldberg Variations have a rich history that far transcend its modern association with Glenn Gould
The false euphoria of dysphoria
Pink News presents breast removal as “pure trans joy” in a new video
Germany in the Baroque Age
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the cultural achievements of the Baroque Age in the German states
Murders for May
A deadly mixture of reprints and new releases
The King of Italy
A fragrant modern Barolo is royalty among Italian wines
Lifeless life of a Technicolor titan
Ronan McGreevy plumbs new depths with his pitiful accounting of a great man’s death
De-Goulding: an incomplete coda
Part two of Mahan Esfahani’s deconstruction of the modern association of pianist Glenn Gould with Bach’s Goldberg Variations
The gendrification of Ireland
How gender identity theory has become embedded in Irish society
Spaces of our own
What the backlash against women-only spaces reveals about rape, trauma and prejudice
Children aren’t pets
When did it become okay to degrade children?
Hail Mary
A Bloody Mary is perfect at almost any time of day and in every kind of weather