Miriam Margolyes
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
