Richard Davenport-Hines
China travels and travails
Rana Mitter reviews The China Journals and The Colour of the Sky After Rain
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
The triumph of Irish populism
The three major parties went with what is popular, rather than what is right
