The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
A right-wing youthquake?
Optimism about the zoomer right is premature
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
The mate, mate, mate state
How managerialism absorbs masculinity
Heaven is where the chefs are British
In praise, and not just defence, of British cooking
A little less conversation
The UK is drowning in discourse
It’s not happening, and that’s why it’s good
The case for not Having A Normal One
Let the people smoke!
Life is boring enough without making it duller
The republican anti-aesthetic
The most uninspiring, mundane movement
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
