Harriet Marsden
Harriet Marsden is a freelance journalist, editor and broadcast commentator. Her first novel, Don't Lose Your Head: Life Lessons from the Six Ex-Wives of Henry VIII, is out now.
Why musicals are Britain’s elite artform
Musical theatre is one of Britain’s most prized assets; we must protect this unique part of our culture and economy at all costs
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
