Rehabilitation
Throwing good money after bad
Spare us the spectacle of incredible claims to reform criminal drug-users by showering them with more public sector love
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks