Beware of Bad Ideas
The democratic state has a duty to act as an ideological gate keeper to protect society
Jamestown Year 1
Capture the past and shape the future
Crake and ales
Patrick Galbraith hears a rare bird but fails with the rod
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book
Summer ‘drille
Hannah Betts chooses floaty frocks and espadrilles
Not everything is racist
Anita Rani’s accusations only stack up when you realise she’s got a book out
Cold War rematch
The winners of the Cold War turned out to be the authoritarians, not the democrats
The King’s Alchemist (Willowhayne Records)
This collection of British music is what they should be playing over the speakers at Heathrow Airport
Were British forces a match for the Warsaw Pact?
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the role Britain’s nuclear deterrent played in facing the Warsaw Pact
They’re not laughing now
Without taxpayer handouts, will the arts finally be forced to give people what they want?
The final Buenos Aires diary
In his tenth diary entry, Dominic Hilton worries that the Argentine capital could become another Miami or Dubai if it were to get its act together
“Watch me take a knife to your throat”
The erosion of academic freedom at LSE has culminated in threats of physical violence