The warp and weft of women’s history
This synthesising project downplays the variety of experience amongst ancient women
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
