Artillery Row
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today