Artillery Row
The “incel” moral crisis
Don’t meme violent criminals into existence
Beware of false prophets
Why are we so drawn to gurus?
Public order and liberal doublethink
Disruption is enabled and peaceful activism banned
Your part in my downfall
Hutton reflects on his unsuccessful stint as editor-in-chief of the Critic, and has determined the readers are to blame
The EU rule of law crisis
The UK should be paying more attention
No ordinary musicologist
Krzysztof Meyer, Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello-piano sonatas (Kaleidos)
Passion and percussion
Two tastes of Chinese culture in London
Falling out of love with London
Bureaucrats are degrading England’s capital
An attack puppy
Are the Tories losing their bite?
Labour, bullying and me
Intolerant leaders are forcing out dissent
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment