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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues