When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
Against literary celebriphilia
We need interesting authors, not “big names”
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Save St John’s Voices
The glorious tradition of British choral singing should be defended
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Sorry, not sorry
Sincere apologies require a shared set of values
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
