Culture
When things could only get better
Fans of the 1990s aren’t nostalgic reactionaries. They celebrate an era of optimism, peace, prosperity and great popular culture
How cinemas can save themselves
Watching films at the cinema should be a communal experience
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
What is culture anyway?
Protecting and renewing culture demands a fuller understanding of its nature and its purposes
Are we losing control of our collections?
We need trustees who actually believe in our museums
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Should we feel pity for the Pelicot accused?
To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
