Sportswear
Does rugby league have a gambling problem?
As Betfred takes control of rugby league sponsorship, has the sport backed the right horse?
Embracing the quiet life
Keir Starmer takes a vow of public service and perpetual dogmatic silence
Lone danger
One certainly wouldn’t expect anything resembling loyalty from the wolves running “Theatreland”
Don’t judge a play by its label
The instinct towards appeasing “sensitivity” would stifle the creative impulse
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
There is no human right to assisted suicide
Lady Hale is wrong about the existing laws
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
The grey vote will not save the Tories
Appealing to older voters is failing as an electoral strategy
Guardrails of civilisation
If politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from the campus
The triumph of the Classical
Modernism has failed and it is time to return to diligent study of the best of traditional architecture