affirmative action
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
Dividing our way to equality
Equality legislation has enabled unfairness and division
Justification by merit alone?
The American Dream is a national theology foundered on the rocks of race and meritocracy
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
Playing the ball
The Kookaburra experiment seems a confused diversion, not a ticket to high intensity
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Loony tunes
Opera begs leave to celebrate lunacy in a different way
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
