Arty Types
Frankie Ho: Controversialist
Frankie Ho runs into trouble in the literary world
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
Toady of Whitehall
Open cruelty was met with equally shameless sycophancy
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
