Taking the register
The trials and tribulations of prep-school parenting
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Britain isn’t the Balkans
The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Crossroads of history
Cyprus is an island of contradictions, and the more we learn about it, the more paradoxical it becomes
Digital killed the analogue man
Despite the seductions of the virtual, we can’t escape our bodies
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
