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
Britain’s Christmas “hobby horse” customs
“Animal guising” customs offer important insights into British festive culture
The meaning of the multi-faith area
Ugly as it is, it could be used for something beautiful
Sycamore Gap and Britain’s sacred trees
Why has one tree inspired such emotion?
Perkūnas in Kent
Eastern European “native faith” movements in the UK
Coronation in high definition
Confronting the mysteries of a sacred institution
Monarchy re-enchanted
The new Coronation liturgy underlines Charles III’s sacral kingship
Ritual, not pageantry
Understanding the Coronation
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
