New Year Resolutions
Self-help with Samuel Johnson
Improving ourselves takes good principles, not mere goals
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare