Choirs
What future for Winchester Cathedral Choir?
The choral tradition in the cathedral must be enlivened rather than diluted
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
The melting pot that boiled over
Beirut was once a playground for the rich and famous, but now seemingly destined for decline
A real education
We need a revolution in the way we teach, the curriculum, extracurriculars and funding
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Bad education
Under Labour a deeply ideological education sector could go very quickly and badly wrong
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour