Arts Council England
The disgrace of ACE
Arts Council England has failed to support artists and art
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
Dear Rishi, what about the arts?
The Tories appear to have no plan for the Arts Council
Content warning
On triggering opera and Arts Council England
The anti-arts establishment
Why do we accept such moralistic philistinism?
Inquest into the death of ENO
The cause of death, in this coroner’s verdict, is a prolonged failure to address reality
The censor returns
New Lord Chamberlains are policing the stage with puritan zeal
How the Arts Council abandoned England
The Arts Council are using the pandemic to reward their cronies rather than saving art
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
