Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time (OUR)
Messiaen’s quartet, first performed in a freezing barracks in 1941, is a thing of great beauty
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
