Train
Like Wotan driving the storm
What it’s like to fulfil a boyhood dream on the footplate of a classic steam locomotive
The Great British Rail-Off
Don’t look a gift train in the mouth
Take the slow train
Tom Chesshyre on the joy and rattle of Spain’s local lines
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
