Artistic Expression
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
