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Deconstructing decolonisation
At its most radical, the push for decolonising the curriculum rests on a series of false assumptions that we need to repudiate
Who will look after the kids?
Why should the State prioritise getting new mothers back to work above all else?
Gretchen Bellamy: Kindly Reviewer
Is there a book she doesn’t like?
Prophet of Catholic conservatism
The magisterial Benedict XVI, one of the greatest minds ever to be elected pope, has bequeathed a lasting legacy
Max Beckmann in Munich
A harried artist between the classical and the modern
Cross questioning
The travails of ageing actors
Romcom revival
Making romcoms modern: plausible obstacles to happiness and a broadening of vision
Affairs of Church and state
Parliament debates marriage, theology and Nadhim Zahawi’s taxes
The new treason of the intellectuals
Julien Benda is as relevant today as he was in 1927
Traditional teaching is now a safeguarding issue
Is there no place for me in the Church of England?
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
