Green-fingers
Personal growth
Green fingers are not always innate, they can be acquired
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
