Woke
The perils of artivism
No space for art: how the ICA has been using public generosity to promote political activism
Don’t sever the head
How the cultural shift and a departure from central purposes risks making the Church unrecognisable to the grassroots members who support it
No place for women in art
If there’s one thing that unites elite British artists today, it’s that they’re all performatively woke or shamefully silent
Woke of the Rings
The Tolkien society is scanning the author’s work for signs of cishetero amatonormativity
Spare us the virtue-signalling hypocrisy
Footballers who take the knee are participating not in the fight against racism, but in BLM’s double standards
He won’t take the knee
Has Robert Peel been reincarnated as the Chief Constable for Manchester?
Enid Blyton and the mystery of the blue plaques
The Famous Five react to Auntie Enid’s cancellation
Can GB News go the distance?
TV channels can recover from a shaky and uncertain start
Oxford’s civil war
The never-ending fallout over Cecil Rhodes has bleak consequences for the future of academia
Critical Race Schools
A student spectator on the wokification of the curriculum
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
Don’t ban the billboards
Campaigns against advertising are pure public health fanaticism
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Unpacking neurodivergence and gender identity
Neurodivergent teenagers are in danger of having their struggles miscategorised
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
Fifth magician blues
He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
