Fair cop
When he gave you a punishment he’d ask if you agreed it was fair
Are fictional politicians as interesting as the real thing?
Sir David Hare’s new BBC drama feels small-scale when we are surrounded by far more impressive real-life spectacles
Boris beware: Nigel’s making plans for you
Farage will soon return from his political grave to ensure Brexit gets done
Lies of the British Medical Journal
The thirst for power that hides behind diversity
BLM racists don’t speak for me
How have racial slurs become progressive politics?
What would Terry Pratchett have made of 2020?
Hard graft and moral clarity were central to the Discworld author’s success
The sexist pseudoscience of ‘gender identity’
New Department for Education guidance helps to quell the fallacy of ‘transgender children’
An extreme form of criticism
Works by Michelangelo, Velázquez, Rodin, Rothko and Mondrian have all been vandalised for reasons of mental instability or political activism or both, informs Michael Prodger
Are conservatives losing?
Conservative parties may be good at winning elections but have they lost the argument?
How Europe slowly came to terms with the Holocaust
And with what shifting emphasis do different countries remember the crime? Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss
Boris fights a strawman
BREAKING: strawman wins