Gulliver’s travails
Gekoski focuses the protagonist’s nightmarish vilification around the career and writings of Jonathan Swift
Vintage volume: The Story of Wine
The story of wine is a glorious story which illuminates the topics of more conventional histories
Shakespearean lore and order
A new anthology displays Shakespeare’s engagement with the sonnet form across his career, but at a high cost
Vinous Valhalla
David Womersley reveres Roger Scruton on wine
A keen nose and sharp prose
David Womersley reviews Waugh on Wine by Auberon Waugh
The Spectre of Totalitarianism
The worst offenders in the new climate of intolerance are our universities
Once, twice, three times a briefing
Are thrice weekly Downing Street briefings finally about to start giving us reasons to be cheerful?
Lie to me
The most dangerous offenders could beat a lie detector because they are often convinced what they’ve done is not abuse
Blood on the tracks
Patrick Galbraith bags an unlikely deer: a roadkill roe buck
We must get serious about being intolerant of intolerance
History is clear: excepting blasphemy from freedom of expression causes far more and far greater suffering than it prevents
Keep Britain’s countryside free from bureaucracy
Now that we have left the EU, the UK government no longer needs to pander to pressure groups like Wild Justice
The BBC, a class apart
Michael Collins says the corporation is fighting the wrong war, as usual
Congressman Trump?: Donald Trump’s surest path back to power
The idea of Trump running for Congressional office may sound unconventional, but the former president has never been one to toe the line
A warning to the curious
Why M R James is still the greatest ghost story writer
Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies
The reaction to the BBC Woman’s Hour interview with Zara Mohammed exposes the cliquishness of contemporary feminists