Murder on the Dancefloor?
Government plans to send undercover police into nightclubs are absurd and destructive
Over the top with Boris
The prime minister is trying to portray the Covid pandemic as a war. It isn’t one
The Silicon Valley English Dictionary
Twitter’s engineers agree that prejudice is hard-coded in our language
Sex and violence: Titian’s Metamorphoses
The National Gallery are reopening their headline 2020 exhibition on 8th July
The pleasure of hating
Debates over what constitutes ‘hate speech’ reintroduce dangerous concepts of sin and morality into our common law
Cancel culture comes for Dr Seuss
Is the Democratic Party under Joe Biden becoming the party of banning books?
The pleasures and the pain
Christopher North speaks to the fearless Andrés Roca Rey, Peru’s first bull fighting star
Leading the good life
Peter Ainsworth 1956-2021
Et tu, Brute?
I shouldn’t have read through the list of my accusers, but I did
Why can’t we have a good film of Noël Coward’s plays?
If one judged the playwright solely on the film versions of his work, one might be forgiven for believing that he had never been particularly accomplished
The Scandi-noir plot to change Sweden
Sweden couldn’t have been as bad as depicted in Sjowall and Wahloo’s novels – after all it produced ABBA and Ikea
The New York Times
Bad times at the Grey Lady
Senator Marco Rubio says business-as-usual with Beijing is “not an option”
In an exclusive interview with Kapil Komireddi, the US senator condemns the Communist Party of China as a “genocidal regime” which poses “the greatest threat” to international peace and security
Make a bonfire of Dr Seuss
Titania McGrath on how book burning is the only way to defeat fascism