Corto Maltese – graphic novels on a higher plane
The faithful translation of Hugo Pratt’s graphic novels introduces his hero to the wider audience he deserves
John Lennon: the first and last global icon
Forty years on from the death of John Lennon, Dominic Green recounts the tormented life of the last universal Western icon
Islamophobia and the suicide of the West
In our perverse desire to tolerate the intolerable we have succumbed to Christophobia
Should the Virgin Mary have had an abortion?
Given modern society’s strident pro-abortion stance and irreligious view of Christmas, it’s a wonder this question hasn’t already been raised
Murders for the onset of shorter days
Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’
Making history
Charles Saumarez Smith believes the restoration of an historic factory in the Potteries can be a model for preserving our manufacturing past
Pop over to Tier 3, take a shufti, don’t come back
It will raise the whole tone of the pandemic
Freedom of speech awakens?
Good news from court, but the fact that it got this far shows it’s an uphill struggle for freedom of speech
Why Victor Davis Hanson thinks Trump will win
The classicist and military historian makes the case fo the president – and a second upset
Male transgenderism is sexism on steroids
Why is it that Eddie Izzard strutting in heels is perceived as more progressive than us boring old vulva-owners in our flat shoes?
The Mirror of #MeToo
Luciano Garbati’s new work expresses a widespread decline in symbolic literacy