Art and Culture

Neither Art nor Culture is your editors strong point, so for high highfalutin stuff like paintings, sculpture, ballet and classical music or opera, it's up to you, so get cracking and write us a piece. Otherwise look below for book reviews and popular (with your editor) music.
The Poetry of Gin and Tea.
Paul Sutton talks about teaching English in an age when literary types are woke censors. The title is a reference to the two drinks I see as central to Orwell and his approach to Englishness, freedom and what we've lost. He's the writer above all I look to for inspiration and bleak comfort, in…
DREAM STATE: TEACHING IN THE ENGLISH CULTURE WARS
Paul Sutton's experience of trying to instil a love of English literature into his pupils in a school atmosphere of woke philistinism interested only in peddling the woke agenda.
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE DONOR KEBABS
Paul Sutton with another of his satirical adventures of Sherlock Holmes, this time on the trail of a jihadi gang intent on no good.
LONDONISTAN - by Melanie Phillips
"Britain is currently locked into such a spiral of decadence, self-loathing and sentimentality that is incapable of seeing that it is setting itself up for cultural immolation' and offers the usual strategies to that outcome, such as repealing human rights legislation that patently favours those…
What Did You Do in The Culture War?
These days it’s easy to sit around feeling upset and angry about the incessant attacks on our British culture and history or even our very identity. So Iain Hunter decided to do something positive about it and became a ..............?
THE VICE OF KINGS by Jason Horsely
Paul Sutton reviews Jasun Horsley's disturbing book on child abuse.
PRESENTS FROM MY BOYFRIENDS
A poem about the grooming gangs?
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE JIHADIST PLOT
Paul Sutton treats us to another of his lost adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Education, Education, Education.
Frank Palmer on the glories of education.
Leonard Cohen – Prophet?
Iain Hunter talks about the prophetic poetry in song of the late Leonard Cohen
THE SCANDAL OF THE STOCKWELL STAIRWELL
Another one of Paul Sutton's highly imaginative recountings of unpublished Sherlock Holmes adventures.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE: the case for freedom of the will
A review of Kubrik's masterpiece from a free will perspective.
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE AUTUMN OF TERROR
Another story of Sherlock Holmes from Paul Sutton's short story series.
The Honkey and the -i--e-
An essay on the inanity of making some words taboo.
DREAM STATE: PART THREE - THE ENGLISH CULTURE WAR
Another humorous but worrying piece about the state of teaching in modern Britain and the affect mass immigration and multiculturalism has had on it.
THE REAL REASONS WHY PORNOGRAPHY IS WRONG
A philosophical discourse on how pornography debases the human condition.
DREAM STATE: PART TWO - THE ENGLISH CULTURE WAR
Part Two of Paul Sutton's essay on life at the chalk face.
Alpha India - our in-house artist and her works.
Opopanax suggested opening a gallery of images generated by our resident artists, the lovely Alpha India, so here's a few that were not used in articles.
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TRANSGENDER PUPIL
Paul Sutton treats us to another of his creative satires, where Holmes and Watson seek to revenge a heinous wrong suffered by 'Miss' Daventry.
BEING 'OFFENSIVE' IS IRRELEVANT
Paul Sutton relates his experience as a teacher and exposes the descent of the teaching of English literature into woke depravity.