Green
Build back greener
We are going to need skilled workers, factories and a resilient and self-sufficient economy
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
