Choral Music
How to start a church choir
It is time to renew choral music — and our culture
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
Most Read
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
An idiot’s guide to promoting “public health” policies
How to make irrational authoritarian moralism sound like urgent common sense
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators