Music
Delicate decadence
A tantalising selection of songs
Micro niche
The best piece of pop
Music fit for a king
The cliché of Britain as “the land without music” was disproved
No more than curiosities
Bruno Walter: String quartet, piano quintet (CPO)
Revel in Runyon
A classic gem with extra polish
Words and music
The bookish thrill of recognising the literary references of the pop artists you love
The quietest guest of all
The clavichord makes up for a lack of grandeur with extraordinary expressiveness
Snaps, crackles and Pop Art
Things you didn’t know you were interested in — until someone wrote a good book about them
We can’t Retvrn to tradition
Sorry, trads and tradwives, modvrnity is here to stay
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
