Expert Failure
The fallen state of experts
How can governments learn from their expert failings?
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
