Gold Standard
Fifty years of easy money
Having gold as an anchor may not be perfect, but it does prevent the enormous expansion of public debt
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
