The answer to Cherniss’s initial conundrum is very simple: humanitarians are often sociopaths and sentimentalists, who are more predisposed to ideological violence than the average person.

Our ambitions need to be commensurately huge but grounded in reality.

Those who believe that poetry and other forms of art are insignificant are verily declaring themselves spiritual deserts.

Crispy skin, plump and fat, and more tender than ribeye, it is an almost perfect meat for Christmas.

The future is a joyless place, where technocrats in NGOs and mega-corporations restrict us, prevent us from seeing loved ones, take away what we own, deprive us of our traditions and take away our possessions.

Our columnist Alexander Adams recently joined 'The Prudentialist' for a discussion on art, politics, culture and more.

Whereas once cultivation of mind and manners were regarded as aspirational, they have been insulted into irrelevance.

Now that state (and increasingly local) venues are programmed along quota lines, with demographic characteristics of creators prioritised over merit, ambitious and talented artists find themselves marginalised as never before.