The Arts
The state of the arts (w/ Pierre d’Alancaisez)
Can art still be essentially and not just instrumentally valuable?
No second coming for the arts
Labour will finish the Tories’ work of destroying the arts – only “better”
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
After the Cass Review
Our elected politicians need more independence from partial lobbyists
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Don’t ban the billboards
Campaigns against advertising are pure public health fanaticism
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
The central myth of Conservative centrism
The Conservatives are not suffering because they are too right-wing
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
How big a problem is problem gambling?
Jolyon Maugham should not roll the dice on opposing GambleAware
