Sheldon Adelson
Sheldon Adelson: casino magnate and political influencer
Sheldon Adelson, one of Trump’s largest individual donors, has died; leaving his wife to continue their high-stakes political influence over America and Israel
Digital dysmorphia
The internet has gone from the marketplace of ideas, to a marketplace in bodies
High times with high minds
Inside long-ago Alpine “reading parties” with Oxford University’s most exclusive secret society
Why I fear this censors’ charter
Nadine Dorries’s chilling Online Safety Bill invites professional activists to wipe anything they deem wrongthink from the internet
Rodent utopia
Dropping out of the rat race
The fame game
Why has talking about books become the preserve of know-nothing celebrities?
Murders for July
The good, the beautiful and the grotesque
A radical reframing of conservative tradition
Yoram Hazony’s purified conservatism risks losing touch with political reality
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time (OUR)
Messiaen’s quartet, first performed in a freezing barracks in 1941, is a thing of great beauty
A cynical man without any plan
Boris Johnson was an opportunist Prime Minister whose gambler’s luck ran out
The Sea! The Sea!
Southbank Sinfonia Baroque at St John’s Smith Square
Why we need a new movement
The timid world of BritLit needs to be shaken up by a mutinous new clique of writers