Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
Against literary celebriphilia
We need interesting authors, not “big names”
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Centre for a vassal state
Why is a think tank dedicated to “Inclusive Trade” trying to tie the UK to EU imports?
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
