Persia
Can the Iranian protests succeed?
The world should pay attention
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Where are the calls for blasphemy laws coming from?
We should consider the voters as well as the politicians
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
