Ornithology
The magic of Dawn Chorus
On International Dawn Chorus Day, there really is no sound lovelier than the competing noise of birdsong
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Are Jewish students really afraid of the Freedom of Speech Act?
Some of have raised concerns, yes, but generalisations are wrong and unhelpful
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
