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
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Save St John’s Voices
The glorious tradition of British choral singing should be defended
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
More drama, less news
An element of fiction can bring insights and humanity that pure non-fiction lacks
The myth of academic meritocracy
An awful lot of talent and experience is about to be wasted
Art does not exist to improve society
We should resist the cultural reductionism of the modern “creative industries”
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
A lack of empathy goes to the hollowness at the heart of so many Kubrick movies
The end of “Anglo-Saxon”?
The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly
My Magyar dish
A dish that combines gravity with tradition, but is cheekily unorthodox
The triumph of the Classical
Modernism has failed and it is time to return to diligent study of the best of traditional architecture
The Modi-fication of British politics
Both parties should stop seeking approval from sectarian Hindu nationalists
Labour won’t survive unless it boosts living standards
People need hope that things can eventually get better
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
Ballots or bullets in New Caledonia
Democracy is at stake as violence scars the French territory
The name game
There’s a meeting of the world’s most important leaders, and Rishi has been invited along, too
Christians are still being persecuted in Egypt
We should stand in defence of a beleaguered minority
Would you trust PC Brother?
The use of unreliable facial recognition technology is growing without sufficient scrutiny or accountability
