Horace
The humanity of Horace
The wisdom of someone who has lived a little is at the heart of the verse of the ancient poet who was adopted as the mascot of the Enlightenment
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Diversity is not our strength
The Khan Review reveals a society needlessly splintered along ethno-religious lines
A new low in anti-vape scaremongering
There is no great risk of oral cancer among vapers
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
The Church of England is practicing a secular religion
Equality, diversity and inclusion can be prioritised over religious faith
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
