There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
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
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
