Inheritance Tax
Against the imaginary conservative friend
Left-wing and liberal journalists should stop appealing to “true” conservatism
Against inheritance tax
Familial bonds and continuity should be encouraged
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
