Archives
The failures of Boris
The Prime Minister is responsible for most of the things that have gone wrong
Sir Tony embraces the old
The resemblance between woke and the Reformation goes beyond means to content
The Cosa Nostra in suits
Big business acts as a mafia, squeezing suppliers and raising prices for customers
The NHS
Not clapping for the NHS
Error of judgement
How the Supreme Court got an issue of great constitutional importance so wrong
Can feminists please drop the Handmaid habit?
Feminists’ adoption of Margaret Atwood’s red cape serves only to obscure the complex real-life issues around women’s rights
Bring back blasphemy laws
Free speech is all very well, but that’s no excuse for being RUDE
Return of the 60s neurosis
Christopher Booker’s stinging takedown of the 1960s, The Neophiliacs, is even more relevent today
Stalin’s last laugh
Joseph Stalin has been recast in Russia not as a bloodsoaked tyrant, but as a strong, effective leader
Is classical colonial?
Naive proposals to “decolonise” Western classical music risk losing the richness of its history
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Final notes
The end The Musical Times is symbolic of a broader malaise in classical music
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
