Culture
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
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
