Fine Art
Art for art’s sake
A collector who bought for pleasure rather than investment
The art of the deal
Pondering the future of big auction houses
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
Defend the arts … before it’s too late
It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right
Vicarious pleasure
On the enduring allure of celebrity cast-offs
We are the cultural Norns
Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate