Sausage
Cross wires
For Britain it’s sovereignty, for the EU it’s a niggle around sausages
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Religious freedom is back on the agenda
The International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill, currently before parliament, is an important step for securing Britain’s role in promoting religious liberty
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
How widespread is NHS qualifications fraud?
A viral Twitter post raises uncomfortable questions about the level of training in British institutions
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
