success
Be more Wham!
What men today can learn from the success of a 1980s pop duo.
In praise of perseverance
Satisfaction comes through effort and resolve
A misguided election briefing
The Church must recognise there are Christians on both the left and right of politics
How cinemas can save themselves
Watching films at the cinema should be a communal experience
The Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford
Postmodernity perches precariously in the porter’s lodge
We need to protect our digital rights
The curbing of dissident speech online should be opposed
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
Seller beware
Sotheby’s new fee structure favours the auctioneer
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
The Conservatives must return to the centre
Populist demagoguery has ruined the party
