American Dream
Justification by merit alone?
The American Dream is a national theology foundered on the rocks of race and meritocracy
Beast of Las Vegas
The first title in Yale University’s highly regarded “Jewish Lives” series to be devoted to a murderous scoundrel
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
