Culture Secretary
Is Nadine Dorries the best we have?
Love or loathe her, she’s never pretended to be anything other than a populist
The strange death of Cockney London
London’s white working class all but vanished, with little reporting or remark by press or politicians
The Church of England is practicing a secular religion
Equality, diversity and inclusion can be prioritised over religious faith
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
The cowards, the pretenders and the woman-haters
Awkwardness is no excuse for not supporting the gender-critical cause
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
Arresting the fertility crisis
Britain needs more babies — and it is far from alone
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities