Royalty
Britain, for better and for worse
A motley crew greeted Charles III at his coronation
Live on TV: history at work
The making of a TV historian
Royal pomp and circumstance
What is it for?
Long to have reigned over us
For 70 years Queen Elizabeth II brought dignity and grace to public life
The “Popish brat of France” reassessed
Leanda de Lisle triumphs where her subject could not
Crown, cross and altar
The centrality of religion to the status and mission of monarchy in Britain and Europe
The Scottish Government are being bad eggs
State institutions should not be encouraging a potentially painful and dangerous procedure
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Who are universities for?
Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more
Deer prudence
It’s time for a change of attitude to wild British venison
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
