Honour
Music to die for
The elegant narrative solution of suicide has had no greater cheerleader than opera
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
