The Spy, the Scholar and the British Academy
David Cannadine’s thoughtful commentary of the Anthony Blunt affair utilises previously unpublished sources
The death of Theatre Criticism
The great critics always began before they were forty. Who are their equivalents today?
Tolerance in America: what the resignations of Katz, Weiss & Sullivan tell us
Two journalists and an academic call for the end of censorship and intolerance
Why are we so interested in Historians?
The historians we love wrote about Big History at a time when Britain mattered
Watching the Riots: Berlin, Trilling and Bellow on the Sixties
The riots of the 1960s left a generation of intellectuals out in the cold. Will the George Floyd demonstrations do the same?
Clive James, the Kid from Kogarah
A tribute to the late Clive James, by David Herman
Intolerable intolerance
David Herman reviews The Tyranny of Virtue by Robert Boyers
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
Why we should question the charge of “Islamophobia”
Valid criticism of beliefs and behaviour should not be equated with hateful bigotry
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
Fifth magician blues
He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
