Whiteness
Misguided and muddled
By inviting listeners to admit their complicity, Eshun failed utterly to make his case
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
