FOIs
More freedom, less information
The Freedom of Information Act was supposed to guarantee honesty and transparency in government, but has ensured that controversial decisions will be forever shrouded in secrecy
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
A passage to Istria
Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
An unconvincing case against the UNRWA
It should take more evidence to strip the Palestinians of essential support
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
In praise of the viola
Cantabile: Anthems for viola (Delphian)