Fine Art
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
Opera is not elitist
Tired stereotypes enable philistine governance
Getting creative with history
The promise of John-Paul Stonard’s Creation is poisoned by a revisionist agenda
Rhyme or reason
Poetry doesn’t need to be useful
The myriad Mona Lisas
How the multiple Mona Lisa copies, and their prices, testify to the longstanding fame of the painting and its mystique
Full of Eastern promise
Out with the old, in with the new: Michael Prodger on art collection trends
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
In defence of British theological education
Critics should be more optimistic about the new generation of ordinands
Who’s advising the migration advisors?
We deserve more transparency when it comes to who and what influences British immigration policy
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
