Jan Morris
The extraordinary life of Jan Morris
The end of one writer’s life as a vivid dream
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP