hospice
What we don’t talk about when we don’t talk about death
Mourning and moving furniture
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
We are the cultural Norns
Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat