Marie Antoinette
Let them eat filberts
The new owner of Antoinette’s jewellery will not just get exquisite gems but a provenance that is equally perfect and poignant
Religion is here to stay
A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
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
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
