The perils of false victimhood
The Critic and Policy Exchange think right-wing academics are being censored. They’re wrong
The wrong sort of women, again
View from Oxford: the Fortune Wheel of grievance spins yet again
An American in search of the English national character
Daniel Pipes’s quest to understand the English national character leaves him none the wiser
Obscure Rhone hunting
If in doubt while perusing a strange wine list, choose a bottle from France’s red wine powerhouse
Free speech is under threat in Northern Ireland
New hate crime proposals could make Northern Ireland the least free part of the UK
Primary sauces
Lisa Hilton savours a timeless French bistro in Pimlico that displays no timidity with the ladle
Conte’s conundrum
How has Italy’s Giuseppe Conte defied the odds and become a consequential political figure in his own right?
How liberal and egalitarian was nineteenth century France?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the conflicts and continuities of France from Louis Philippe to the Belle Epoque
The detransitioners
Is it transphobic to worry about people who regret their surgery? David Scullion speaks to psychotherapist James Caspian and photographer Laura Dodsworth
John Luther Adams: The ‘Become’ trilogy (cantaloupe)
You will either feel very relaxed by the middle of the piece or you will throw things at the wall and say some very bad words
He tweets, he scores!
Allegra thinks it’s all over