Governance
How Singapore gets things done
Singapore’s enlightened authoritarianism offers lessons about effective governance
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
Doing shots
You can tell a lot about someone from their favourite Henry wife
The West is weak
The Russian-American prisoner exchange sends a catastrophic message of Western frailty
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
