Is it safe?
The torture of our new safety obsessed national psyche
Lapwings, Hyenas and Hares (Oh my!)
It’s amazing what you can encounter during an early morning jog
The beauty of Jeremy Brett
Why any self-respecting heterosexual male needs a man-crush
A literary pilgrimage to a watery grave
Following in the footsteps of the author J.G. Farrell
Touch of dystopia
Are we facing a Ballardian dystopian future of waning human touch?
Why I’ve embraced Ethiopian spriss culture
A culture of mixing and fusing can serve us well in lockdown and the life beyond
Is this what equality means?
US women could be about to achieve a level of equality not all of them actually want, by becoming eligible to be drafted in a time of war
A paean to Spain and Italy during troubled times
On the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage I saw the delights of the countries most cruelly ransacked by Coronavirus
The perils of mind-altering substances in the Horn of Africa
Stifled by bureaucratic governments, many chew through tonnes of khat
My gratitude to the Cold War
As the the British Army presence in Germany came to an end, so did a way of life that engraved itself into the hearts of hundreds of thousands of Brits and Germans.
Where is so much gender confusion coming from?
The scope of inquiry into gender and young people should be expanded to schools
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
The Rwanda Bill and the rule of law
Our constitutional tradition strictly separates international law from domestic law
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
A passage to Istria
Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast
Sunak stumbles
The Prime Minister spent half of the afternoon trying to extract his foot from his mouth
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
The cowards, the pretenders and the woman-haters
Awkwardness is no excuse for not supporting the gender-critical cause
