Jerusalem
Jerusalem: cradle of lost peace
In the Holy Land coexistence was a fragile dream, built on unstable foundations
New stories from a very old city
A history as brilliantly labyrinthine as the city it describes
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time (OUR)
Messiaen’s quartet, first performed in a freezing barracks in 1941, is a thing of great beauty
The poacher’s gun
A time when countrymen had to steal or starve
The Thirty Years War
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Thirty Years War in the German lands
From RP to cock-er-ney
Why can’t politicians be themselves?
Getting wrecked
Dame Ethel Smyth’s opera dated quickly, but it hardly hurts to have another look at it
Literary festivals: sheer hell in a tent
To make people laugh for an hour is good business sense — but it says nothing about writing, or creativity, or art
Hen don’t
DANGER, women may be having fun in YOUR neighbourhood
Fall into the gin trap
Nothing is better than a clean spirit
Bush and Boris: separated at birth?
Boris aped Dubya’s mistakes
A big day for women’s rugby
Fairness and safety should be upheld
BBC butterflies
Trans charity Global Butterflies seems harmless — but are they really cuckoos in the nest?