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
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
