Riches of the east
Mikanowski’s timely book pours iridescent light on the lands and peoples of Eastern Europe
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
Those WhatsApp groups in full
Thirteen reasons to ban politicians from smartphones
