Clifford Bates
Clifford Bates is University Professor in the American Studies Center at Warsaw University in Warsaw Poland
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics