Red Wine
The King of Italy
A fragrant modern Barolo is royalty among Italian wines
The pain of Sinn Fein
How has support for the party fallen so dramatically?
The subsidy squeeze
Schemes such as HS2 cost billions of pounds while reducing UK productivity
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
The problem with politeness
The British aversion to seeming rude exposes us to ideological scolds
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Why we all feel let down
Reflecting upon the corrosive power of disillusionment in politics and why our leaders are virtue vacuums who lack both competence and character
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
Trouble beneath the surface
Labour’s triumph obscures worrying signs of division and chaos brewing in British society
Gender and Josef K.
How it feels to be accused of crimes that don’t exist
The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism
How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation?