John Simon
An appreciation of the late John Simon
Andrew Cusack remembers the apotheosis of criticism
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
