Antonia Senior
Antonia Senior is a writer and journalist who reviews books for The Times. She tweets at @tonisenior
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
The Just Stop Oil sentences were just
Direct action protestors are not immune from the operation of the law
The BBC can be a drag
The priorities of its reporting, especially on gender issues, can be absurd
Lactose intolerance
Stories of social progress are our mother’s, er, I mean, our parents’ milk
Britain isn’t the Balkans
The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction
Anarchy in the UK
Until the Siege of Sidney Street, anarchism had been tolerated in England
Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
Turning shares into swords
The Church doesn’t invest in defence companies, but it prays you continue to do so
Ringo Starr
The man cruelly mocked as “not even the best drummer in The Beatles” must be the most underrated musician of all time
Portraits in cowardice
Conservative MPs need to rediscover their spines if they want to be effective
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents