Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
Putting politics at the heart of everything
The NHS should care about patients, not ideology
Drum fast, die young?
Taylor Hawkins is not the only drummer to meet with an early grave
In defence of good grammar
Why Angela Rayner needs to stop torturing our language
Auntie’s quota-led new faces
The BBC risks putting social justice over excellence
Maybe not Yes
With only two remaining members from the classic 70s lineup, a lot is riding on the band’s new album The Quest
Publish — or be damned
There’s no wonder that books are becoming more conformist when freedom of expression is being curtailed
The magic of Dawn Chorus
On International Dawn Chorus Day, there really is no sound lovelier than the competing noise of birdsong
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
The ongoing fiasco of European defence
Starry-eyed talk of continental cooperation obscures the grim reality of competing interests
