Joseph Heller
The rise and fall of Sad White Men
Novels about middle class male malaise are now considered passé but they were once both groundbreaking and shocking
Assisted dying and the risk of premature surrender
We should be very wary of the circumvention of true palliative care
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Techno, bombs, and babushkas
A month travelling across Ukraine
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
