David Littlefair
David Littlefair’s background is in community work and youth homelessness services
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
The “on behalf of ” Labour Party
It was founded as the party of working people, so why are Labour’s prospective MPs more middle-class than ever before?
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
Very naughty boys
Progressive parenting is all very well but sometimes misbehaviour needs a firmer approach
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination