Myths and Legends
Vincent’s tragic legend restored
A new book revisits the painter’s death and returns the verdict that it was suicide after all
Fishermen’s tails
Through history, Mermaids have been treated as more real than legendary, even by those who have had a reputation to uphold
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Fear and favour
Are the police guilty of a “two tier” approach? They are if their own “Police Race Action Plan” is to be believed
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover