School Closure
The science supports reopening schools
Protect the vulnerable: open all schools immediately
Coronavirus: Following the herd on school closures
Is the rush to close schools really necessary?
An abundance of viral caution
Online and distance learning aren’t solutions for shut schools
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
