Michael Oakeshott
The lasting power of simple virtues
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett
Defenders of a shared culture
Oliver Letwin compares and contrasts two conservative philosophers, the late Roger Scruton and Michael Oakeshott
The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill
It threatens free speech while offering dubious benefits for society
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
This vision glorious
Let us allow the glory of Easter to touch our daily lives
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
