Tempest
Instruments of shock and awe
Jean Sibelius/Arne Nordheim; The Tempest (Naxos/LAWO)
What is the British Army for and where is it heading?
Will higher defence spending go on tech or boots on the ground?
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
The Grand Migrant Hotel Rwanda
All are welcome at Kagame’s eccentric migrant hostelry, and don’t worry about the roving deathsquads: they’re harmless
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
The Age of Twee
Line up and clap for the NHS, wankpuffin
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
