Pharmacology
The problem with prescriptions
Concerns about over-prescription should not be trivialised or problematised
The slain in Spain, and Belfast again
This police drama tidies up loose ends just enough, but still leaves the viewers wanting more
In defence of the right to addictions
Paternalists should stop masquerading as defenders of liberty
Culture war, what is it good for?
Women will continue to battle for our rights
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
Ulster’s deadly web
What if one of the most useful British agents inside the IRA was also a mass murderer?
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 untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
The whores and mores of Hanoverian London
The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot