Artillery Row
Political fever dreams
Not everything we dislike is Hitler
Hate crime and hate slime
There’s a difference between violence and criticism
Against the neo-prohibitionists
Drug users have agency — let them choose for themselves
Things have only got wetter
What have the Conservatives achieved?
Children and gender distress
Modish answers may not be the best
Risk your neck, save your soul
Against the sterility of safetyism
A Vilnius descent
Progress only goes so far
Schumann/Mahler: Symphonies 1&2 (Naxos)
Schumann cannot be ignored
We are not so far from the Victorians
There is no cause for despair
Badgers complaining about foxes eating chickens
Some of the government’s critics need more introspection
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
