Slow Horses
Passed-by spies
Spy show depicts the insecurity service
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Doublespeak about assisted suicide
The campaign for assisted suicide is distinctly Orwellian
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
