Jaspreet Singh Boparai
Jaspreet Singh Boparai writes occasionally on art history, Latin culture and Punjabi culture.
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
Taking on the right-on with cold, hard facts
A practical manual for anyone who has no choice but to sit on committees with idealistic intellectuals
Dear Rishi, what about the arts?
The Tories appear to have no plan for the Arts Council
Paradise dimmed
John Milton’s Paradise Lost is the greatest poem in the English language, yet it seems to be fading slowly from public view. Who could write a new national epic?
A civilised discussion
If we are to defend civilisation, we had better pin down what we are talking about
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The ankle tag and the ballot box
The courts convicted Marine Le Pen, but left her political fate to French voters
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
