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
The past speaks for itself
The problem with modern period drama
The complacence of environmentalist urbanism
Increase access, yes, but don’t restrict movement
Music fit for a king
The cliché of Britain as “the land without music” was disproved
Excellence for everyone
What does the BBC have against classical music?
The death of a music shop
We shouldn’t accept the decline of the high street
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business