Tragedy of the little Darlings
The relationship between J.M. Barrie and the real life Peter Pan was fatherly, friendly and perhaps something else
Mood music from the past
A confidential matter: the letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935
No prefix required: how gay writers came of age
Douglas Murray refuses to mourn the death of the gay novel — a genre that was once ghettoised has joined the mainstream
Satire needs to find new targets
There are still plenty of institutions worth mocking
Angels still sitting on my shoulder
Douglas Murray discusses the importance of intellectual mentors and reveals two who continue to guide him
Can hurt feelings trump free speech?
Douglas Murray reviews What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Truth and Equality on Campus by Ulrich Baer
Ghostly good taste
Douglas Murray reviews ‘Old House of Fear’ by Russell Kirk
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Is “love is love” only for white people?
The Tories have suddenly discovered the book of Leviticus
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
