Russell Beale
Russell Beale on song as Bach
How the paternal gorgon finally attracts our empathy, waging a last intellectual battle
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
