James Lees-Milne
In defence of reading diaries
We experience people at their most depressed and their most joyful; their most selfish and their most generous
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
Ukraine is in its strongest position yet
Russia has played nearly all of its cards, and lost nearly all leverage
Eighteen questions for Kim Leadbeater
Questions that all MPs should be asking
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
