Unlikely auteur of mercy
Dan Hitchens makes the case for film director Shane Meadows as a genius of Christian art
The Cosa Nostra in suits
Big business acts as a mafia, squeezing suppliers and raising prices for customers
Fighting back against the censors
Dan Hitchens reports on the groups who are taking the battle for free speech forward by speaking truth to power
Log on, tune in, burn out
Dan Hitchens weighs the charge sheet against baby boomers, who stand accused of creating a precarious world of low pay and endless work
The post-Christian identity crisis
Three books portray a West unconscious of its past and uncertain of its future
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Not another one!
How might the run-up to the next general election look?
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
