Vampires
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)