Candlemas
Evensong at the end of the world
ASH Smyth sings choral evensong for Candlemas, in Stanley cathedral
Britain needs eccentric thought
Lewis Goodall is wrong about the “radicalisation” of the Tory right
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
The case for more royals
This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Why are we ignoring the slaughter in Sudan?
There is no excuse for indifference when we pay such close attention to other wars
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
