Insulate Britain
Mire of conflicting duties
Acceptable speech turns into unjustified coercion as police stand by
Crime without punishment
It should not be difficult to distinguish between political protest and disrupting national life
Astroturfing XR
Why are Extinction Rebellion pretending not to be linked to “Insulate Britain”?
Why nuclear abolition should fail
The harsh reality is that the nuclear revolution is irreversible and makes major wars significantly less likely
Football and the golden fleece
Football should consult its conscience before it jumps on the NFT bandwagon
Reynaldo Hahn: Poèmes & Valses (Hyperion)
This unfamiliar collection is the most enjoyable piano album of the year so far
Grammar ain’t a class issue
Angela Rayner’s inverted snobbery helps no one
Rolling back into town
The world’s greatest band return to Liverpool — do they still have it?
Beauties and the beasts
Our urge to anthropomorphise animals obscures the fact that we are all part of the same complex ecosystem
Don’t mock the Med mindset
What the Spanish have lost in international relevance, they make up in appreciating life
Digital dysmorphia
The internet has gone from the marketplace of ideas, to a marketplace in bodies
How Hitler won
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how the Nazis won in 1933 with only a third of the vote
Hans Winterberg: orchestral works (Capriccio)
The lost sounds of a German Jewish composer
This is Starmer’s chance
He could be the next Harold Wilson