Orson Welles and Lockdown’s Radio Renaissance
I’m listening to art made by dead people rather than DIY lockdown productions
Can the BBC rebuild our schools?
To rebuild our education system, we must encourage that undervalued institution; the Family
How the Arts Council abandoned England
The Arts Council are using the pandemic to reward their cronies rather than saving art
Soho, Soho, it’s off to walk we go…
Is pedestrianisation the way to reopen Soho?
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
Why the Voice failed
The Australian establishment has been too focused on symbolic gestures rather than practical change
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
Immigration enthusiasts and problematic polling
New analysis made British voters look far more pro-migration than they are
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
The Age of Twee
Line up and clap for the NHS, wankpuffin
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
