T S Eliot
What we owe the dead
On the community of generations
There’s more to 1922 than just Woolf, Joyce, and Eliot
We should pay attention to Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim
Literature’s year zero
One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever
The trouble with tradition
On the foetid fantasies of the fogeys
Modern poetry: I too, dislike it
T. S. Eliot would despair at this year’s shortlist for the prize in his name
Theodorakis and Christou: Intersection 1955
The Ballad of Mauthausen ranks among the most beautiful music ever written about the Nazi Holocaust
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Arresting the fertility crisis
Britain needs more babies — and it is far from alone
Unpacking neurodivergence and gender identity
Neurodivergent teenagers are in danger of having their struggles miscategorised
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
