Victorian Graveyards
Studio: Victorian graveyards in London
The Magnificent Seven: a testament to the eclectic pomp and sometime mawkish piety of Victorian good taste
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press