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
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
The ongoing reality of Russian imperialism
People rationalising Russian military intervention are betraying their ignorance of Russian history
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
Campus confidential
Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective