Secret Author
The new establishment
Who will subvert today’s anti-establishment?
Never trust a publisher
Once Twitter takes against you, they will wash their hands of you, Pontius Pilate-style
Bring back the panjandrums
We need heavyweights to separate good from bad
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
