Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone

A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm

Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right

Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness

Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture

Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert

Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short

By abandoning physical media, have we exposed ourselves to censorship and corporate control?

It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable

The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes