Relationship
McCain and Me
David Smith reminisces on his relationship with John McCain
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
Keep the cops out of our minds
Silent thoughts should never be prohibited
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
