Poland
The meaning of the battle for Polish Television
The “liberal” suspension of the rule of law should concern us all
Let Poland be Poland
Westerners are treating the country as a blank ideological canvas
What the Polish election means
It has major implications for conservatism and left-liberalism in Europe
The drowning man of Europe?
The cooling of Western attitudes towards Ukraine
Polish lessons for Ukrainian reconstruction
What can the Ukrainians learn from post-war Warsaw?
What does diversity mean?
There are different ways of being multicultural
Immense energies
Grazyna Bacewicz: Piano concertos &c (Ondine)
Art’s tragic tug of war
Like Scheherazade, Bruno Schulz traded his art for life
The miracle of the Constitution
On 3 May 1791, Poland became the cradle of constitutionalism in continental Europe
How to lose a culture war
Or a fast march through the institutions
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone