Sir Philip Barton
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm