Coldplay
What happened to sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll?
Music today is anodyne compared to the heydays of Britpop and the sixties and seventies
Frock right off
Dresses, dogs and dinner
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
What does the Scottish Hate Crime and Public Order Act really say?
Misunderstandings are the fault of Police Scotland and government ministers
