Mark Dawson
How to cheat the bestseller list
Buying your way into the book charts is more widespread than you might think
Night of the ghost fascism
If a far right protest is rumoured but no one turns up, can it be counter-protested?
Say it ain’t so, Joe
How democratic is a shadowy cabal conspiring to hide the fact that Biden is too frail to govern?
The disgrace of ACE
Arts Council England has failed to support artists and art
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too
The problem with politeness
The British aversion to seeming rude exposes us to ideological scolds
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
Guardrails of civilisation
If politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from the campus
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
The warp and weft of women’s history
This synthesising project downplays the variety of experience amongst ancient women