The new treason of the intellectuals
Julien Benda is as relevant today as he was in 1927
The unheard lessons of howling feedback
Separating the signal from the noise
The Qing-quisition
Why did the Chinese bureaucracy succeed where the Catholic Church failed?
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
