The sad, slow death of state schooling
The decline in standards has been dismayingly avoidable
Levelling up to where?
The chatterati are in no place to lecture
As war rages we must not give in to hate
Human lives escape the simple enmities of war and nationalism
2022: What can we say?
Weaponised words can only decrease in value
Poetry matters
When poetry is sold as nothing more inspiring than literary politics, is it any surprise the poetry shelves in Waterstones are so dusty?
Stop mining!
Deeper data shafts just produce useless piles of waste
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Addressing misogyny must include addressing trans activism
Against the wokewashing of sexual objectification
The lies of Sinn Fein
Sectarian smears against Unionists have been exposed as the falsehoods they always were. Will anyone bother to say sorry?
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills
It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
