Soviet Culture
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
How will Christian MPs shape the assisted suicide debate?
The Tory Christian is in decline, but the Labour Christian could make the difference
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
Killing democracy to save it?
The annulling of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections should concern us all
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Kemi’s Achilles’ heel
Her ego leads her to overvalue her talents and ignore her mistakes
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
The triumph of Irish populism
The three major parties went with what is popular, rather than what is right
Braving the sourdough
La Palombe and a very merry Christmas
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
