Grieg
Great big rain showers
C Schumann/Grieg: Piano concertos (Signum)
Burgundy on a budget
In search of the wine lover’s holy grail
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Christmas? My arse!
Seething about Santa, sofagate and the Common effing Entrance
An Oxford arriviste
Shades of Brideshead and Saltburn at an unconvincing “classy” Oxford restaurant
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
