Literacy
The new female ascendency
How will society be changed by the over-production of female graduates?
Libraries and laureates: a study in necessity
Without school libraries, boys and girls will grow up in households where the idea of owning books, or even borrowing, seems an increasingly fantastical one
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Cheap at the price
Political donations are the highest grossing investments you’ll ever make
The UK’s war on free speech
Street violence is being met with restrictions on online speech by a Labour government desperate to clamp down on opinion
