decline
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
State of the arts coverage
The BBC has caved to cowardice over culture
Defend the arts … before it’s too late
It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
The dangerous lure of Europe
We must disincentivise economic migration to European states
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Only abortion is like abortion
Don’t tack on abortion to create an impression of progressive goodness
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
A cruel choice
Today’s euthanasia bill risks sending Britain down a dark path
