Diversity
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
The Church of England is practicing a secular religion
Equality, diversity and inclusion can be prioritised over religious faith
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
An £800,000 lesson in how not to do diversity training
Lloyds should never have fired Carl Borg-Neal
Does the Turner Prize still matter?
This year’s exhibition offers a diversity of style if not of ideology
Is diversity our strength?
On the failings of multiculturalism
Political correctness contra aesthetics
Public life is becoming uglier, duller and more soul-destroying
The fantasy world of Anglo-Afrocentrism
History is being twisted for political purposes
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
The Grand Migrant Hotel Rwanda
All are welcome at Kagame’s eccentric migrant hostelry, and don’t worry about the roving deathsquads: they’re harmless
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
Taking on the right-on with cold, hard facts
A practical manual for anyone who has no choice but to sit on committees with idealistic intellectuals
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
