Discrimination in the womb
Neither Heidi Crowter nor her husband feel Down’s Syndrome means their lives are not worth living
Remembering Brian Micklethwait
The man who made libertarianism fun
Dutch courage
Christopher Silvester on a war movie with no rousing patriotic music or violence, but nevertheless filled with unexpected delights and discoveries
The Rashford trap
Rashford’s campaigning moves the state towards becoming a substitute parent
Advocates who brook no dissent
Narcissistic identity politics perpetuates that other people are dangerous things that require controlling by activists who “get it”
Trans ideologues hide books to hide reality
They know their theories can’t withstand the cold light of real scholarship
Lucien Grote: Experimental Playwright
Lucien veers between lamenting modern theatre’s disdain for “truly serious work” and suspecting that it all could have gone a great deal worse
Green gift for China
Failing climate policies create international discord that benefits no one but China
Canary in the cultural coalmine
Robin Ashenden talks to the prescient Lionel Shriver about cancel culture
Blinded by rage
Tory MPs eager to fight the war on woke need to take the beam from their own eyes
Warfare in the classical world
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the nature of warfare in Ancient Greece and Rome