Artillery Row
Centrist Dadocracy
Rory Stewart thinks only he can save the nation
The government needs to put safeguarding first
It should not allow social transitioning in schools
The wellspring of woke
The right should stop “owning the libs” and focus on state power
The new normal of net zero
A dash to net zero requires significant lifestyle changes
Coolness and cancellation
We should not just people with problematic pasts by how much we like their work
What does philosophy matter?
Philosophy is essential to our modern times, but it can also be dangerous
The elephant in the avant-garde
The totalitarian trend in Modernism demands acknowledgement
The world’s last measured moments
Joseph Haydn: Symphonies 93-95
The Dear Leader and the gnome
Friendship between the Kremlin and North Korea is no joke
High-octane despair
Das Rheingold, Royal Opera House
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
Michael Gove’s new definition of “extremism” is extremely silly
We cannot define such a vague term with such vague terms
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
Killing with kindness
“Be kind” culture has abandoned adolescent girls
