Are you not entertained?
The emptiness of popular culture
United in hatred
America’s crisis of legitimacy
On mentioning the war
What’s behind our obsession with World War 2?
William Golding and the curse of the dream
We must resist the lure of utopianism
The dilution of trauma
Exaggerating emotional struggles weakens our resilience
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
Crisis of leadership
No Tory can seriously expect conservatism from Kemi Badenoch
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
