Sparks brothers
Sparks of Life
The end of the Sparks brothers’ career matches the intensity and originality of its beginning
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
