Parsifal
Spare me the Great Canadian Warbler
Radio 4 celebrates the limited talents of Joni Mitchell
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
How to make marriage less taxing
We should let young couples keep more of their own money
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
The spy who came in from the coast
Defector Natalie Elphicke leaves the Circus to join the pinkos
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
