Artillery Row
Three cheers for peers of mature years
Removing some of the wisest and most experienced voices in the House would be destructive and wrong
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
Spies and butterflies
We should prepare for new modern forms of espionage
Where are the real statesmen?
Neither populists nor managerialists can rule
Labour’s economic plans are a disaster waiting to happen
They won’t save the planet and they won’t save the economy
Talk of the town
On the strangeness and variety of urban development
The pointlessness of pintlessness
There is no case for slashing the drink-driving limit
The ghosts of Tory past
The Conservatives are haunted by the spirits of the last two decades
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
Choosing enemies wisely
China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Will Syria’s Christians really be safe under HTS?
The evidence, alas, gives little cause for optimism
