Culture
On Leadership by Tony Blair, Precipice by Robert Harris, and Oxford crime – Books of the Month
On Leadership by Tony Blair; Precipice by Robert Harris; Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards
North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order review – “An excellent account”
Dr Edward Howell, whose columns in the Spectator and the Telegraph are among the...
A Revolution Betrayed by Peter Hitchens review – In Defence of Grammar Schools
Review – A Revolution Betrayed: How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System by Peter...
Veranilda by George Gissing review – The best historical novel never written
George Gissing remains the most underrated novelist in the English language. He wrote twenty-three...
Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart review – “The prime minister we never had”
This is a marvellous book, a memoir of Rory Stewart’s nine years in Parliament,...
Jammin to… ‘Apricot’ by Basil Hogios
Antonia Whitton evangelizes about a fleeting moment of brilliance
Daft Punk in a funk
Sam Parsons is consumed with righteous anger at new single 'Get Lucky'
Preview: 1984
Tess Colley expects good things from this adaptation of Orwell's classic
Review: Life is a Dream
Laura Stacey finds sound jarring but performances strong in the Oxford Spanish Play
What are Wordsworth?
Sadie Levy Gale and Molly Brown experience 'performance poetry'
Hair-razing artwork
'Bold and Bald' A review of Adam Wozniak's Buster Renovatio.
Light-hearted Art
“Playing with shadows” A review of the Hayward Gallery's light show.
St. George’s Day playlist
Cherwell music get all patriotic with their latest offering...
Haven’t they Don well?
Ceri Fowler and Don Broco discuss everything from George Clooney to puppies...
Styles stays a-Float
Riaz Philips thinks this is a very inoffensive but listenable work...
We’re sick of Steve!
Jack Chown thinks that Steve has fallen into the 'Mumford and Sons trap' on his latest offering...
Review: The Book of Mormon
Frank Macpherson finds this show frankly boring
Spotlight on…1984
Evy Cavalla interviews the production company behind the dystopia
Review: The Smack Family Robinson
Like the Swiss Family Robinson, but with less of a message and much more smack
