Michael J Fox
The wild north
On screen savage battles, middle-aged villains, decline and disease are reviewed by Robert Hutton
The school as a battleground
Michaela defeat will not deter Islamist designs on schools
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius