Bureaucracy
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
Chasing rainbows
Dissident civil servants have been risking their careers to fight a losing battle against burgeoning Whitehall wokery
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
An Athena SWANsong
The equalities scheme threatens the intellectual foundations of Irish institutions
The mate, mate, mate state
How managerialism absorbs masculinity
Is Britain closed for business?
New development is being strangled by red tape
Centrist Dadocracy
Rory Stewart thinks only he can save the nation
A little less conversation
The UK is drowning in discourse
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
