Multiculturalism
Supporting multiculturalism is the natural conservative position
Attacking it attacks the very essence of Britishness
Before the current era
In a time of multiculturalism, mere words provoke apoplexy
The elephant in the classroom
Imagining itself to be impartial, the “neutral” RE curriculum imposes its own claim
How a twenty-year-old report started the culture wars
The Parekh report argued that ‘Britishness’ as previously understood was now defunct
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
The dark future of free media in Europe
A French news channel has been fined for airing unchallenged negative views about migration and climate change
Say it ain’t so, Joe
How democratic is a shadowy cabal conspiring to hide the fact that Biden is too frail to govern?
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Live and let live
Labour must resist the urge to kick field sports
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
