Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
What’s at stake in the culture wars?
Not only are they real but they are of grave importance
Deconstructing decolonisation
At its most radical, the push for decolonising the curriculum rests on a series of false assumptions that we need to repudiate
Whites and wrongs
Dan Hicks, The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Cultural Violence and Cultural Restitution (Pluto Press)
Criminal insanity
Nigel Biggar reviews Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, by John Lloyd
Not just democracy
Hong Kong protestors are fighting for British-style institutions
Why so few men take up the pen
With publishing now such a female-dominated industry, it’s no surprise that there are so few men writing fiction
Surprise and tension
Czech Songs: Magdalena Kozena (Pentatone)
Nesta, I detest ya
An engine of innovation has become a puddle of inanity
Finnish on a high note
Now, how the Helsinki has this happened?
Dad’s army
We’re all doomed
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
Hand to mouth
Delicacy, of unknown origins, makes us reluctant to pull plums with our thumbs
Do the right thing
Doubling down will end the Tories as a party of government
The problem with politeness
The British aversion to seeming rude exposes us to ideological scolds
Sex-Machina
Holy month is upon us
The scourge of EDI
It is patronising, divisive and anti-meritocratic
