Oscar Wilde
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
A failed Oscar Wilde
The rise and fall of Milo Yiannopoulos
Feasts in far pavilions
The cricket tea season will soon be upon us
The tragic downfall of Lord Alfred Douglas
The 20th-anniversary edition of Douglas Murray’s Bosie remains the seminal account of the tragic life of Lord Alfred Douglas
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
The idea of the countryside
English rural life in theory and practice
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
An Oxford arriviste
Shades of Brideshead and Saltburn at an unconvincing “classy” Oxford restaurant
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
Bad guidance and empty words
The government cannot be trusted to protect single-sex spaces
