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Dec 11, 2025
The bureaucracies that govern cultural life today are fundamentally uninterested in cultivating any proper sense of what art is, what it is ‘for’, and how new creations...
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Nov 11, 2025
Cultural change is never only about winning the argument but about making people desire to side with you. What matters just as much as the Renaissance ideal of eloquent persuasion is...
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Jun 25, 2025
Last week, ministers took to social media for Thank a Teacher Day, praising the profession for inspiring the next generation. Meanwhile, the Labour government is making it harder for...
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Jun 11, 2025
There’s something deliciously odd about writing a “biography” of something that has never drawn breath. But in Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography, Joseph...
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Mar 11, 2025
Great ideas are a splendid thing, and those that are true, even better. But ideas are embodied things, rooted in the real world — and reality has a knack for breaking the mould...
Dec 11, 2025The bureaucracies that govern cultural life today are fundamentally uninterested in cultivating any proper sense of what art is, what it is ‘for’, and how new creations...
Jun 25, 2025Last week, ministers took to social media for Thank a Teacher Day, praising the profession for inspiring the next generation. Meanwhile, the Labour government is making it harder for...
Jun 11, 2025There’s something deliciously odd about writing a “biography” of something that has never drawn breath. But in Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography, Joseph...