Richard Strauss
Mood music from the past
A confidential matter: the letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages