Lord Deighton
The battle for PPE – never was so much owed by so many to so few
Can Lord Deighton do for PPE what Lord Beaverbrook did for Spitfires?
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
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
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
