Israel
The fate of Christians in the Holy Land
Violence and intimidation stalk Jerusalem this Easter
The real threat to Israeli democracy
How is it “undemocratic” to tilt power towards elected representatives?
Captivating concertos
Beethoven/Ravel: Concertos (Avanticlassic)
The roots of U.S. support for Israel
Walter Russell Mead offers a counterblast to claims of a pro-Israel lobby influencing US politics
The unholy conflict
The world has to face the bloodshed in the Middle East
Wartime hallelujah
Creativity amid conflict
Jerusalem: cradle of lost peace
In the Holy Land coexistence was a fragile dream, built on unstable foundations
Murders for the start of February
A good novel as detective story, and the detective story as a good novel
Professor Gopal has the Varsity blues
Fighting antisemitism is not a “conflict of interest”
Shifting the goalposts on Israel
A partisan report distorts the law as well as the facts on the Palestinian question
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
