BBC
Malcolm Arnold: The Dancing Master (Resonus)
The BBC thought Malcolm Arnold’s opera was not serious enough and a bit bawdy
Channel 4 turn off IT Crowd
Laurence Fox’s woke intervention, Glasgow football honour US liberal and Essex spray a Muslim with champagne
Wokeminster
Tories reject unconscious bias training, BBC show critical race lecture, and Colston falls (again)
The silence of the arts
Why have the arts not strained at the bonds laid upon them in the way earthier pursuits and pleasures have?
Giving straight white men all the best jobs isn’t always good news
Why should we expect BBC lifer Tim Davie to end BBC bias or high pay?
A trauma that never ends
Adam LeBor commends the BBC’s latest documentary on the Iraq war
Is there such a thing as right-wing comedy?
The issue of political balance in comedy is no laughing matter
A conservative chairman won’t save the BBC
No matter who takes over the BBC, the corporation is irrevocably broken
Turning the tide on cancel culture
One man’s crusade against the woke decolonisation of our patriotic anthems
Last Night of the Proms – a storm in a teacup?
BBC Proms row has developed into an unexpectedly successful publicity stunt
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
Resistance is futile
Acceptance can be an act of protest. Not a submissive, passive surrender.
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
Jam, Jute, journalism, Japanese design
There is a lot more to see and enjoy in Dundee than London reviewers suggested
The awkward truth about sex and free speech
More women should realise that “inclusivity” should not come before freedom
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
