British culture
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
The British family is nuclear powered
Sorry, post-liberals, but in Britain communitarianism is not traditional
The disgrace of ACE
Arts Council England has failed to support artists and art
In defence of hereditary peers
We should preserve Britain’s magical eccentricity
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance
The paranoid style in British centrism
Disinformation journalists? The call is coming from inside the house
Why we all feel let down
Reflecting upon the corrosive power of disillusionment in politics and why our leaders are virtue vacuums who lack both competence and character
Ireland’s surrogacy scandal
The Irish inferiority complex grasps at any first — no matter how low
Great big rain showers
C Schumann/Grieg: Piano concertos (Signum)
Doing shots
You can tell a lot about someone from their favourite Henry wife
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Why we should give votes to kids
It would stop their interests from being neglected
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
The beginning and end of conversation
A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
The pointlessness of pintlessness
There is no case for slashing the drink-driving limit
