Matthew Arnold
All sweetness and light
Two hundred years after his birth, critic and poet Matthew Arnold still has much to teach conservatives
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
