Nicholas T. Parsons
Nicholas T. Parsons is a writer, translator and critic. His latest book is Civilisation and its Malcontents: Essays in Our Times (Batthyány Lajos Foundation and Hungarian Review)
Art for oligarchs’ sake
Divorced from aesthetic considerations, the modern art business is a refuge for the uber-rich
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated