Cole Umnist
Cole Umnist is a columnist
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
Britain must not overregulate AI
Staying competitive in the modern world depends on balancing its opportunities and its risks
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
The follies of the wets
There is nothing “moderate” about the Tory centrists
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Alan Bennett at 90
From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation
For we are one and unfree
Australia doesn’t care about free speech, and it doesn’t want to
Have hope, have kids
How parenthood can steel us against stress and despair
Murders for May
Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI
Dune and progressive media illiteracy
Leftist moralism obscures thematic depth in its frantic rush to judge