Thomas Adès
Solem Quartet: The Four Quarters (Orchid)
The Solem Quartet are my frontrunners for the best new talent in 2021
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
The bad old days
The “golden years” of publishing were characterised by booze, bullying and amateurishness
Where is the media scrutiny of surrogacy?
The Pope is concerned but journalists seem indifferent
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
Against the imaginary conservative friend
Left-wing and liberal journalists should stop appealing to “true” conservatism
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
Necessary force
It was right for the US and the UK to attack Houthi military positions
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism