Music Of The Future Cannot Ignore The Past
Composers who try to create culture in a vacuum will struggle to be heard by a hostile public
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Student Cocoon
Today's university students are being mollycoddled
Fifty Shades Of Sorrow
A compelling novel which echoes Madame Bovary in its depiction of unsatisfying marriage
Political Correctness Is Devouring Itself
The sooner the Left realises that you cannot censor your way to a better society the sooner it can worry about more important issues
Floreant Drones
Whatever's killing off our bees, it isn't touching our society drones: London private members' clubs are hives of activity
London by Night: In the Footsteps of Dickens
The city’s great chronicler hit the streets to cure his insomnia. His writing cast a spell on me and now I go for nocturnal walks of my own
Phoney Freedom
Do smartphones rob us of our freedom, as Edgar Degas thought? Isaiah Berlin would argue otherwise
The Birth of the Affluent Society
David Kynaston’s Modernity Britain, the fifth of his series of histories of Britain since 1945, reveals the late Fifties to be not a time of illiberalism and repression, but of a generosity
Could You Eat A Horse?
It it a great paradox that our culture glorifies celebrity chefs when, as a nation, we increasingly refuse to spend money feeding ourselves
A Vintage Year for Acting
A glut of superb performances in 2012 reflects a rising general standard in the actor’s craft
Home Sweet Home From Home
'One can become American but one can never become English'
Fashion Victims
The dowdy wives of UK politicians could learn a thing or two from their fashion-forward foreign counterparts