It’s a drag
How sacralization ruins low culture
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Recreational rioting
Is your right an existential threat to the nation or just blowing off steam? It depends on which flag you’re waving
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
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
Israel’s forever war
Netanyahu risks dragging his country and his allies into an open-ended regional conflict
Lock her up
And, simultaneously, let him go
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
