1920s
A Wodehousian pick-me-up
Noel Coward and Friends: A Marvellous Party (Signum Classics)
Jiving in the ruins
This dazzling album features young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin
G.K. Chesterton and the pandemic
The prince of paradox predicted the absurdities of Covid lockdowns
Smashed stereotypes or revisionist reveries?
Why judge prohibitionists by their words when we can judge them by their actions?
Joseph Roth’s golden twenties
When Hitler came to power, the bubble burst
Size isn’t necessarily substance
Gatsby aside, F. Scott Fitzgerald — the Jazz-Age chronicler — is dispensable
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Revolution in the Academy
The quest for knowledge, not power, ought to guide academia
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
