Artillery Row

The ‘equalities’ agenda has backfired

Luther King Jr’s dream of a colour-free world is being thwarted by professional anti-racists

The case for socialist healthcare in one country

If China and Covid can’t shake doctrinal globalism, can anything?

Alexander Zemlinsky: The Mermaid (Pentatone)

Norman Lebrecht breaks a rule in his review of The Mermaid

The ecstasy and the agony

Paul du Quenoy reviews The Club King, Peter Gatien’s memoir of New York nightlife

Keeping the lid on the BBC

Dissident voices are not being heard on the BBC, writes Robin Aitken

Can the BBC rebuild our schools?

To rebuild our education system, we must encourage that undervalued institution; the Family

Pounding to nothing

Patrick Porter reviews The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, by John Bolton

Born on the Fourth of July

Us Brits need to come to an honest reckoning over what happened in Afghanistan

In praise of the Great British pub

Let us sip, slurp and quaff this weekend, and do our bit to keep the pub trade going

Shining limelight upon twilight?

Daily televised press conferences are a gift to the media class not to government