Artillery Row
Communitarianism hits the ballot box
The local elections provided a glimpse of a future where voting is divided by ethnicity
The central myth of Conservative centrism
The Conservatives are not suffering because they are too right-wing
C. L. R. James and the majesty of cricket
The West Indian writer and historian knew that cricket is far more than merely a sport
Crowning glory?
The coronation came and went far too quickly
Misappropriating motherhood
La Leche League and the pornification of breastfeeding
Can we balance re-enchantment and reality?
We should not throw out the civilisational baby with the consumerist bathwater
Failing universities
What has gone wrong in British higher education?
The new Scotland
Scottish culture is narrowing and secularising under the influence of a strident liberal elite
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
Jane Austen versus virtue signalling
What Mansfield Park can tell us about contemporary politics
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
In the name of God, lead
The Prime Minister appears terrified of making a stand against racism in his own party
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
