A full Platée
A daring production of a daring work
Children need education, not indoctrination
We need more debate on what children are being taught in RHSE
The poverty of “Singapore-on-Thames”
Britain can take inspiration from other countries but it cannot merely imitate them
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
Who will be Macron’s dauphin?
And what does it mean to be the heir to Macronism anyway
Buried trésor
Wherever French see merde, there’s someone over the Manche to appreciate a picturesque glitter
Why do we persist with Opera?
Dependent on state subsidies, artistically ossified and only a few go to see it
Symptoms of mistrust
Academic free speech discourse points towards deeper decay
The French disorder
France needs more realism about its social decay
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
Kemi Badenoch is a useful idiot
The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
