Awards
What do the BAFTAs really stand for?
The awards used to be entertainingly eccentric
Oscars so woke?
Predictability and cyclical trends at the 92nd Academy Awards
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Choosing enemies wisely
China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
