Arts
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Big, dumb and full of fun?
“Operation Mincemeat” does not quite live up to the hype
The irrational theatre
The state of the National Theatre is tragic indeed
The arts are being crippled by conformity
A new report shows that the last place to find rebellion is the arts world
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
How cinemas can save themselves
Watching films at the cinema should be a communal experience
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
The art world must escape gender theory
Grim, irrational ideas still dominate the Arts
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism