Nikolai Kapustin
Nikolai Kapustin: 4th piano concerto (Capriccio)
Listening to Kapustin in 2021 is an act of nostalgia, a gesture of defiance to the dictates of fashion
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Women MPs should be representing women’s interests
It was ludicrous to talk about microaggressions in the aftermath of an alkaline attack
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds