Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
Leave the EU to be the EU
CANZUK doesn’t need to copy anyone or force anything
Equality for some
Labour is continuing a misguided approach to DEI
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
Money troubles
At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world
On the Cusk of austerity
A cerebral critic pleaser, a dramatic crowd pleaser, and a perennial favourite
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
Blairism at its most zealous
The Labour manifesto is a recipe for bland bureaucratic managerialism
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
