Decolonisation
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Exhausting, divisive and irrational
Academia must undo the excesses of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion agenda
The roots of academic irrationality
How ideology came to dominate the intellect — and rigidity subordinated scepticism
The unmaking of the Athenaeum
The venerable club is being spoiled by ideology
What’s at stake in the culture wars?
Not only are they real but they are of grave importance
Decolonisation is not a metaphor
In praise of the rough honesty of the far left
Deconstructing the decolonisers
An intellectual Robin Hood reclaims British history for those most underserved by elite narratives
The grievance industry
Ostentatious victimhood can be a comfortable gig
The Sagan standard
Liverpool’s Biennial rhetoric forgets about art
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
