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 Wokeiad - Book Two
Book Two of A Satire in Heroic Couplet on the odyssey of the voyage of the Woke Demon from the shores of outer Barbaria to those of barmy Britain.
Mozart or Verdi?
Take the second act of La traviata:
It's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, wait outside"
Kipling adapted to portray Reform's attitude to Tommy Robinson.
OUTNUMBERED? NOT ANY MORE.
A summary of the dreary BBC's decline as demonstrated by one program.
Alternative Christmas Cards
Grumpy Old Git on Christmas Cards and Marxists.
The Wokeiad
A Satire in Heroic Couplet on the odyssey of the voyage of the Woke Demon from the shores of outer Barbaria to those of barmy Britain.
Twas the Night before Christmas
A Christmas Story by die Brüder Grimm
EMMANUEL
A short poem by Paul, lamenting what we have lost.
Joseph of Arimathea
The legend of Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury.
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.
Babouscka
A Russian Christmas Story
A CHEERY GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMASTIDE
Mischief in a haunted pub.
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.