Monica Jones
The joys and misery of Monica
This is not only an objective biography by a distinguished academic, it is also a warm personal memoir
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
