John Wycliffe
The Trans troubles of the Middle Ages
The great scholars of the Middle Ages had their own word for Trans
The University: The idea and how to destroy it
Fourteenth-century Oxford University offers today’s Woke some lessons in cancel culture
Ralph Fiennes, Four Quartets and the future of theatre
It’s impossible to hear Eliot’s meditations and not be reminded of our current national ordeal
We need to forgive Shamima Begum
An ISIS bride calls Christianity’s bluff
Not everything is racist
Anita Rani’s accusations only stack up when you realise she’s got a book out
Shostakovich: Piano concertos 1&2; piano trio 2 (Linn)
This is a recording that encapsulates the other, older side of Europe
The gift and curse of language
It separates us from the animals – and the angels
Dead and buried
Why has a much-needed review into coroner’s services been shelved?
Are Truss and Gove the big winners?
Boris Johnson’s political skills have not deserted him
Parky’s great river of song
Michael Henderson on the old-fashioned music that the BBC doesn’t want us to hear any longer
World Class
On a phrase used by people with brains of tinsel
Brave and barmy new worlds
The solemn, febrile and deeply bonkers ferment of interwar modernism