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
The secret war of a wolf in chic clothing
Dudley Clarke had his fingers in many of the most interesting pies of covert operations in World War II
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
A rollicking, great Kiss Me Kate
Musical and artistic brio can transcend the “problematic”
There is no human right to assisted suicide
Lady Hale is wrong about the existing laws
Nesta, I detest ya
An engine of innovation has become a puddle of inanity
The British family is nuclear powered
Sorry, post-liberals, but in Britain communitarianism is not traditional
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
Mutilation theology
Asserting mastery over their future selves is a feature of mastectomy, not a bug
Duke of deception
Duke Wolff was a real life Gatsby, a brilliant, flamboyant faker whose lies left a legacy of both devastation and fascination for his children
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief