The Everly Brothers
Long players
As long as the fans are alive, it seems that a band can keep going
The last Everly brother
Don Everly’s death officially marks the day the music died
Who’s ready for the Equality Levy?
Birmingham’s bankruptcy is a portrait of Britain’s future
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
NATO’s unhappy birthday
The world is growing more dangerous and its members need the will to confront new challenges
The morality of altruism
People have a limitless capacity to convince themselves that what’s right coincides with what’s best for them
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
