West Country
Where is the West Country accent?
Once the BBC has finished buttering up the North, how about promoting the West? asks Roland White
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
