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”
Dressing well is good for the soul
Against the tyranny of scruffiness
Art is not all about you
It is not elitist to expect audiences to be quiet
Against pop culture populism
The phoney courage of disdaining classical music
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
