Funding
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
How China woos the Muslim world
Money talks louder than Uyghur Muslims can scream
The arts must secede
Against the cultural-industrial complex
EDI contra science
The misuse of “ethics” in academic research
Why do the Tories love to promote their enemies?
They have failed to find and empower their own supporters
#ReceptioGate and the (absolute) state of academia
The numbers game has incentivised bad behaviour
Oil, art and the perils of patronage
Art patrons have always been on the wrong side of history
Opera is not elitist
Tired stereotypes enable philistine governance
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
