Local History
Rambling through Chesham and Amersham
Each constituency has a unique and fascinating history
Putting a price on scholarship
Charles Saumarez Smith on the battle to safeguard the future of some of Britain’s oldest and best-known learned societies
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
