A fascinating record of a vanished world
The delight of the diaristic form is seeing through another’s perspective
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
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
Latin love, Hispanic hate
Spain and Argentina’s complex relationship is being strained by the World Cup
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?