Artillery Row

Misappropriating motherhood

La Leche League and the pornification of breastfeeding

Can we balance re-enchantment and reality?

We should not throw out the civilisational baby with the consumerist bathwater

Failing universities

What has gone wrong in British higher education?

The new Scotland

Scottish culture is narrowing and secularising under the influence of a strident liberal elite

Music for a disintegrating world

Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)

Jane Austen versus virtue signalling

What Mansfield Park can tell us about contemporary politics

Murders for May

Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI

Free speech is a waste of breath

Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway

How Singapore gets things done

Singapore’s enlightened authoritarianism offers lessons about effective governance

Trouble beneath the surface

Labour’s triumph obscures worrying signs of division and chaos brewing in British society