Culture
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Living in the 80s
Did popular culture peak four decades ago?
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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
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation