creativity
The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
Addicted in art
What role should suffering play in creativity and the consumption of art?
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Retro Rodrigo is primo
A new nostalgia listening to GUTS
Art does not exist to improve society
We should resist the cultural reductionism of the modern “creative industries”
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified