Nativity
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce