Let’s stop wrapping our children in cotton wool
As questions are now being raised about the consequences of having shut playgrounds during lockdown, Joanna Williams says that we need to let kids be kids
Dark side of the rainbow
The US obsession with marketing Pride to children has reached alarming new heights
Truman and Tennessee: an unlikely friendship
Michael Collins maps the relationship between two of the greatest writers of the American south
A surprising celebration
Good Friday is both a demonstration of, and the only answer to, what has gone wrong with the world
Who regulates the regulators?
Now in power, Vote Leave politicians have forgotten about the Electoral Commission
Re-building a library
Confessions of a bibliomaniac in the South Atlantic
Fighting back against the censors
Dan Hitchens reports on the groups who are taking the battle for free speech forward by speaking truth to power
Opiate of the masses
TV has become a branch of the pharmaceutical industry doling out heavy sedatives
Drink In to Help Out: Wines from the Western Cape
Henry Jeffreys recommends five wines to support South Africa’s wine industry as it recovers from the aftermath of the pandemic
Our Man about Town
On the merits of celebrity authors and literary book prizes
Dom’s People
Tinker Tailor Soldier Twat