Peerage
We are failing rape victims
The vulnerable are sacrificed to indulge the entitled
We need more Lord Lebedevs
Evgeny Lebedev’s peerage should be celebrated – other members of the Lords have much closer links to the Kremlin.
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat