Jolyon Maugham
Thank fox I’m not a QC
Why I stood up to Jolyon Maugham, Twitter’s blocker-in-chief
That’s a T32 frigate and I am pleased to see you
Five letters send a chill down the spine of your friends: BORIS
“Left flanking or straight up the middle with bags of smoke?!”
Not another Armistice Day to get through. And what about all the other pressing issues for which there is no poppy?
The breakdown of higher education
A British-American professor explains how diversity ruined academia, and how to reform it
What wine meant to Roger Scruton
Sir Roger Scruton moved through personal tragedy and objective philosophy to justify wine as a “social intoxicant”
Unravelling the myth of George Soros
Emily Tamkin’s ‘The Influence of Soros’ is a lucid, subtle and fair-minded attempt to grapple with a tremendously complex legacy
Pleasures of the plague year
Lisa Hilton welcomes the locals back to Venice and enjoys a spicy nod to the city’s vibrant past
The myth of overwhelming right-wing terrorism
Myth-makers are following fashion not evidence
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem (DG)
Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem covers a gamut of moods, from pity to passion
What is truth?
Banging on about “the methods of science” is not a good argument
Good Night! (Erato)
French pianist Bertrand Chamayou’s compilation of lullabies shows a degree of taste and independence unusual in a young soloist still at the start of his journey