Choirs
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
Woke invades the sciences
The intrusion of irrational ideology is distorting and censoring science
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
Remember the Armenians
The West has turned its back on the world’s oldest Christian state