Thomas Becket
He being dead yet speaketh
Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
When breast isn’t best
A major maternity support group is at war with its trustees over its insistence that men should be enabled to breastfeed
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
If you come at the king…
Trump’s response to being shot has affirmed his status as a Great Man of History
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Murders for May
Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI
Who hears the voiceless?
Leaving unborn children without legal protections would be an ethical disgrace
Is Beer the solution to all of life’s problems?
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — And How The World Lost its Mind. By Dan Davies
Small boats and big problems
The asylum issue is not going away, and Keir Starmer must face it soon