Is incitement to religious hatred the new blasphemy?
In a new lecture for Gresham College, Ivan Hare QC discusses the law’s attempts to deal with hatred and vilification throughout history
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
