Sydney Carton
Sydney Carton is an English writer
What the Conservatives should learn from Keir Starmer
The only way to reform the Tories is to purge
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Bad tradwife manifesto
From have it all feminism to tradwife influencers, women are being given impossible ideals and taught to refuse limitations
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap