Vincent van Gogh
Vincent’s tragic legend restored
A new book revisits the painter’s death and returns the verdict that it was suicide after all
Gunfight at the Not-Really-OK Corral
It’s high noon for Sunak’s Conservatives as the bullets start to fly
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
Has the US acted in good faith over Ukraine?
Weakening Russia seems to have been more important than strengthening Ukraine
Let’s at least agree rape is wrong
Fundamental feminist theories are under attack from within feminism itself
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Made for TV
UK politicians are generally unsure what to think about a subject until the ITV docudrama comes out