The Arts
Against the new witch-hunt in the arts
Art, if it means anything, must be more than propaganda
Cultural institutions are offering kindergarten radicalism
Feel-good clichés are being embraced as revolutionary wisdom
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”
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
I’m so over Exposed
Exposed: The Rise of Extreme Porn and How We Fight Back by Clare McGlynn
Cosmonaut thriller is absolutely stellar
Strong characters drive Star City forward in an increasingly paranoid hothouse of fear, betrayal and adultery
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Patchett is as good as she needs to be
Whistler by Ann Patchett; The Smiths: A Novella by Michael
Bracewell; Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming