Arts funding
With friends like these …
Opera’s wild vicissitudes of fortune under both Labour and the Conservatives
In defence of excellence
The anti-elitist Left and libertarian Right are both wrong
Yes, beauty matters. Now what?
How do we address our current artistic crisis and the wearying stalemate of the “culture wars”?
Requiem for London’s music
How London has lost its place as a classical music capital.
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
