Artillery Row
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
Let’s diversify the curriculum
If we really want diversity, we need to get more traditional
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
