Marc Sidwell
Marc Sidwell is a writer, editor and senior fellow of the New Culture Forum. His documentary series exploring the history of the West will be released at the end of 2022. He tweets at @marcsidwell
A radical reframing of conservative tradition
Yoram Hazony’s purified conservatism risks losing touch with political reality
Revitalising the West
Ukraine has rallied the West and yet again shown our civilisation’s limitless capacity for self-renewal
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Should we feel pity for the Pelicot accused?
To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible