Culture War
Guardrails of civilisation
If politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from the campus
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
Conscious decoupling
Some people consider ideas on their own terms; for others they are inextricable from context
Let children’s stories be children’s stories
We need more respect for the childhood imagination
The culture wars drag on
In which your correspondent visits a drag show in a church
How to lose a culture war
Or a fast march through the institutions
The human subject
Tár is a film of moving ambiguities
The culture war is all around you
It is the philosophical water in which we swim
We are all “culture warriors”
Some of us just pretend not to be
What is a woman?
Laura Dodsworth interviews Matt Walsh, the man behind the controversial new film on gender
Nesta, I detest ya
An engine of innovation has become a puddle of inanity
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
Defend Christian private schools
Keir Starmer’s tax raid would be bad for children, parents and the state
Trouble beneath the surface
Labour’s triumph obscures worrying signs of division and chaos brewing in British society
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
The way forward for conservatives
We must have bold politicians who really believe in the things they promise
Did we get Brexit done?
Brexit is unfinished, yes, but the potential is enormous
Crowning glory?
The coronation came and went far too quickly
Weaponising weasel words
Gender theory is built on shallow euphemisms
Great big rain showers
C Schumann/Grieg: Piano concertos (Signum)
The secret war of a wolf in chic clothing
Dudley Clarke had his fingers in many of the most interesting pies of covert operations in World War II
