Unflinching view of a fall from grace
If Carrère can be so honest, there is hope for lesser sinners
A study in radical rhetoric
We can disagree with Annie Ernaux’s politics while saying she deserves her Nobel Prize
Matters of fact in a post-truth world
The message of The Constitution of Knowledge is one of hope, as Rauch urges those who resent the censors to “unmute” themselves
The incestuous sins of the soixante-huitards
The secrets and lies of the Castro-loving 1960s revolutionaries who became part of the French establishment
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay