History
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
