Glenda Jackson
Where there’s a Will…
If plum roles started being handed out on the random basis of “artistic merit”, anarchy would surely reign…
Nicholas Parsons vs Auberon Waugh
How Parsons won a battle of wits
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
The ongoing reality of Russian imperialism
People rationalising Russian military intervention are betraying their ignorance of Russian history
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
