Culture
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun