Culture
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
