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
Faustian modernity
200 years ago, Goethe invented modern man
The beginning and end of conversation
A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.
Populism on the march
As populism advances on both sides of the channel, we ask if it can make the shift from insurgent movement to governing project
The thorn in Starmer’s side
Why does Rosie Duffield scare the Labour leadership?
The new men’s rights movement
For gender-critical feminists, TRAs can sometimes feel like MRAs with a modern twist
The end of “Anglo-Saxon”?
The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly
When breast isn’t best
A major maternity support group is at war with its trustees over its insistence that men should be enabled to breastfeed
July letters
Tory trans activists and franchise folly
That was the night that was
A new dawn has broken, even if the sky is grey
What price justice?
Small disputes involving ordinary people are not a waste of the courts’ time
The king and the boss
Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa
