John Gielgud
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
Should we feel pity for the Pelicot accused?
To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
