Hilaire Belloc
Infinite enjoyment
Duff Cooper understood wine’s power as ‘firm friend and wise councillor’
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
