Port
How to drink port without the storm
There is nothing more agreeable than a glass or two of fine vintage port at Christmas. As long as it agrees with us!
Britain’s love affair with port
Henry Jeffrey’s recommends a selection of port for Christmas 2020
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
