Should the COI make a return?
How government communications are in serious need of a reboot
How a twenty-year-old report started the culture wars
The Parekh report argued that ‘Britishness’ as previously understood was now defunct
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
