New Society Magazine
Good old New Society
It was a magazine whose influence extended beyond its readership
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Religion is here to stay
A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
