Adrian Chiles
The secret diary of Adrian Chiles (aged 55 11/12ths)
A glimpse of genius at work
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
The new Scotland
Scottish culture is narrowing and secularising under the influence of a strident liberal elite
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
Jane Austen versus virtue signalling
What Mansfield Park can tell us about contemporary politics
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
Teaching leftists about tax
Sometimes, an argument about economic policy is like an oil spill
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan