Jonathan Van-Tam
Is Boris pulling his leadership contest grift again?
Classics are classic for a reason
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book