The virtues of vice
There is always risk with reward
Disposable women?
Middle-aged women are routinely ignored and dismissed by society — it is time for that to change
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
The ongoing reality of Russian imperialism
People rationalising Russian military intervention are betraying their ignorance of Russian history
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
