Anonymous II
Anonymous II is a quietly retired academic, and wishes to remain so.
Profile: Tobias Rustat
A Cambridge college tried to remove his memorial plaque and the Church branded him a “slave trader” but, in fact, this royal retainer was a philanthropist
Lone danger
One certainly wouldn’t expect anything resembling loyalty from the wolves running “Theatreland”
Still-sparkling gems of an annus mirabilis
Tried and tested novels overlooked in our neophilic rush to the new and wanting
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
Ireland’s Future has no future
Despite Irish separatist campaigning, Northern Ireland’s future remains firmly in the UK
Ringo Starr
The man cruelly mocked as “not even the best drummer in The Beatles” must be the most underrated musician of all time
Sport, strength and pseudo-feminism
We should expose the emptiness of femininity compared to femaleness
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
A very innocent man
Donald Trump is innocent squared. He never does, or is, anything by halves
The scarlet letter
A touchy-feely Labour government must embrace the ugly reality of business
Trojan horse separatism
Spanish unity is being bartered away in a game of political greed as a Catalan coup-leader is allowed to stroll back into the country