Reclaiming freedom in the arts
Great art that speaks of today cannot be made in a climate of fear
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
