Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers