Ortolan
The call of the wild
Hunting for the pot is now strictly a hobby, but you can fake it, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
