Jonny Best
Jonny Best is a musician and festival director. He tweets at @JonnyWorst
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Two-tier policing is not new
Our authorities must operate without fear or favour again