The Netherlands
All double dutch
Andrew Cusack says the influence of the Netherlands’ seaborne empire can still be felt around the world, from Manhattan and South Africa to modern Sri Lanka
To win the war, stop fighting
Drug cartels and the underground economy fear legalisation and deregulation
Greeks bearing gifts
This wine nation has more to offer than retsina
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Great big rain showers
C Schumann/Grieg: Piano concertos (Signum)
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Fear and favour
Are the police guilty of a “two tier” approach? They are if their own “Police Race Action Plan” is to be believed
Ireland’s surrogacy scandal
The Irish inferiority complex grasps at any first — no matter how low
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
