Modernity
The Queen contra modernity
Why we should keep her values alive
The return of the sacred
The British monarchy is defying secular modernity
Return of the 60s neurosis
Christopher Booker’s stinging takedown of the 1960s, The Neophiliacs, is even more relevent today
Can our duties set us free?
Jacob Phillips’ new book challenges the assumption that freedom lies in unconstraint
O blind new world
Behind modernity’s moralistic exhortations lies a cold-blooded mania for total control
God wake ye, Merry England
The decadence and excess of the city is of a piece with puritanical restraint
Antique business
Thomas Woodham-Smith on an old trade in a brave new world
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
