Housing Development
Moray berth
A northern light shows the way
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
The Grand Migrant Hotel Rwanda
All are welcome at Kagame’s eccentric migrant hostelry, and don’t worry about the roving deathsquads: they’re harmless
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
