English National Opera
Art does not exist to improve society
We should resist the cultural reductionism of the modern “creative industries”
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Christmas? My arse!
Seething about Santa, sofagate and the Common effing Entrance
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Reasons to be cheerful
A pessimist tries to summon up Christmas cheer
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
