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 Christmas at Greccio: A Story of St. Francis
Chrismas celebrated by St. Francis in a small medieval Italian village.
The Gift of the Magi - by O. Henry
A touching story of the love behind a gift.
A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas
A childhood Christmas imagined. By Dylan Thomas.
A Short Christmas Story by Richmal Crompton
A short stoy by Richmal Crompton, on a precious gift.
Legend of St. Christopher
The story of the the Christ bearer.
A CHEERY GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMASTIDE
Mischief in a haunted pub.
Babouscka
A Russian Christmas Story
WHAT CHRISTMAS IS AS WE GROW OLDER
A Short Christmas Story by Charles Dickens
“Truth Was My Crime”
Book Review - “Truth Was My Crime” by Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff This book serves as a warning call. There is still still enough freedom to fight for freedom.
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.