Jesse Norman
The feud that made the modern age
A new book breathes new life into historical fiction
The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill
It threatens free speech while offering dubious benefits for society
Against gorpcore
We have to develop and embrace aesthetics that inspire the imagination
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
Childhood reclaimed
Mobile phones have been constraining our kids’ imaginations — but it does not have to be this way
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
Legal laughs
Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing
The renovation of the Heal’s Building
Londoners are sentimental about the early-twentieth-century Tottenham Court Road store, Heal’s
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
The never-ending question
Jonathan Gullis may still be in the middle of his parliamentary question
