Life has become the avoidance of death
In the continual absence of metaphysics, life – shaped for many years by the pursuit of comfort – is now defined by the avoidance of death.
Is a victory for freedom of speech in sight?
On the second day of Maya Forstater’s appeal, Josephine Bartosch says victory would result in heterodox thinkers breathing a sigh of relief
How imaginative should historians be?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about archival research and the importance of source material
The idealisation of everyday life
Natascha Engel delves into Marc Stears’s new book, and asks: is there anything in here that will help us rebuild the Red Wall without losing our big city majorities?
Justice warriors
Nick Cohen says pounding the streets brings its own rewards
A red wall budget?
The Northern Research Group’s demands to the Chancellor
The finest actress of her generation
How Helen McCrory blazed through her life and career like a comet
Amtrak Joe
Tom Chesshyre on the railroad buff in the White House
Gloriously bad company
Do we really need another biography about Francis Bacon? The answer is emphatically yes, says Christopher Bray
Whitehall takes the knee
When the MoD’s top man signs off with a BLM hashtag it’s a brave official who doesn’t get the message
Poirot’s little grey cells
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Belgium’s greatest fictional detective