Al Qaeda
Christopher Hitchens’s War
Commentators used 9/11 to keep framing the world as liberty versus totalitarianism
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Cheap at the price
Political donations are the highest grossing investments you’ll ever make
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
