PPE Tsar
The battle for PPE – never was so much owed by so many to so few
Can Lord Deighton do for PPE what Lord Beaverbrook did for Spitfires?
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Prince
Is he simply a desperate chancer, or a genuine threat to British interests?
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
