social realism
The geopolitical prescience of Handel
On opera’s flirtation with current affairs
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
The conversion of St Lee
Never mind migrants converting, what about the MPs?
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
