Malcolm Arnold
Malcolm Arnold: The Dancing Master (Resonus)
The BBC thought Malcolm Arnold’s opera was not serious enough and a bit bawdy
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
The curious incuriosity of multiculturalists
We cannot blind ourselves to differences between people
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
