Public Art
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)