Grievance Industrial Complex
Not everything is racist
Anita Rani’s accusations only stack up when you realise she’s got a book out
Why I’m no longer talking to black people about race
The race debate has been taken over by grifters with a vested interest in a booming equalities industry
UN-Believable
Women are cancelled, white people are racist, the UN goes woke, and limited and specific law-breaking
The campus grievance industry
An illiberal network of activists and quangos threatens our cherished academic freedom
Been there, read that
Can we leave old books alone?
The catalogues of Christmas past
The great London department store Gamages was the British Amazon of its day
Too woke to travel write?
Perhaps a little less introspection will see a renaissance of the troubled genre
The greatest cancellation
Warriors against cancel culture have been loudest in calling for a republic
Big questions, muddled answers
Human Frontiers is an entertaining, zippy read but it feels one layer down from its ostensible subject: big ideas
Barricading the bully pulpit
The Online Harms Bill promises safety for children but protects the very elites who corrupt and harm the young
The Battle of Britain was not won by the Few
We credit pluck for what we really owe to imperial and industrial might
Classical architecture’s counter-attack
Reed’s great book exposes the ugliness and illiteracy of Modernism
Racist to the bone
There’s a revolving door between woke academia and woker UK Plc
Vegan diets won’t save us
Not all plant food is virtuous and not all meat and dairy is problematic
Hans Werner Henze: The Sea Betrayed (Capriccio)
I was completely absorbed by this opera as a sound production — maybe one day I’ll get to see the whole show