Canterbury Cathedral
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
A bitter pill
Women and girls are losing medical advice and safeguards in the name of “freedom”
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
