Swearing
In defence of traditional swearing
And against the cult of “cockwomble”
The Cockwombible
James Felton’s new book is lazy and bad
Don’t mind your language
There is bugger-all to celebrate. So create a rich vocabulary of despondency
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
History will judge us on gender
How can the modern world tolerate such absurdity?
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
This vision glorious
Let us allow the glory of Easter to touch our daily lives
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills
It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems
