Media
The state of the arts (w/ Pierre d’Alancaisez)
Can art still be essentially and not just instrumentally valuable?
Attack of the Hydies
How the Tillies and the Lillies are transforming right-wing newsrooms
The opportunistic assault on GB News
This is an attempt to shut down the competition
GB News must save itself from itself
The channel can do important work if it gets out of its own way
How the Press Association got bullied
And how the journalistic sausage gets made
Peckham, protests and “parasitic merchants”
Demonstrations have exposed the tribal underbelly of modern Britain
Where are the Parkies of tomorrow?
In a risk averse world of fakes and phonies, the ever-authentic Sir Michael Parkinson is sorely missed
The wrongs of Spring
The BBC reporter has disappeared down a journalistic rabbit hole
Guess Huw?
Time for a media law reset
Does the Mail know what male means?
Where have the Mail’s balls gone?
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
