Newsnight
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
The crisis of teaching
Everybody is to blame for the declining standards in universities
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
