Leon Trotsky
The 21st century Bolshevik
Brexit showed the ruling elite is still terrified by Trotsky’s ideas of working class upheaval
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children