Soho
Whatever happened to the British bohemian?
Twilight of the Soho set
It’s a 10 from me
Lunching at one of Soho’s finest as it celebrates a decade of unassuming excellence
The death of Soho
After a recent incident in London’s Carnaby Street, Brice Stratford laments the “dire state” of corporate Soho
Soho, Soho, it’s off to walk we go…
Is pedestrianisation the way to reopen Soho?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)