The making of a modern prophet
Taylor’s impressive second biography of Orwell is more than justified
Playing with fire
Is writing a show about burns victims and the pioneering Guinea Pig Club really “appropriate”?
Kicked out of the Comedy Club
Andrew Doyle wonders why so many comedians are offended by the satire of Titania McGrath
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
The curious case of the “Gaylor” affair
Whatever the framing, the sexuality is the story
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
What are universities for?
The battle for British universities is not yet lost
