Jonathan Meades
Hold the back page
Football was once a spectacle. The grotesque Qatar World Cup reminds us of all it has become
Despising all that they hold dear
Politics is but a subset; the true villain is belief, says Jonathon Green of Jonathan Meades’s new release
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
Don’t ban the billboards
Campaigns against advertising are pure public health fanaticism
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
