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Post-Colonial
When will we get serious about cyberwarfare?
Journey around the travel scribes
Why is travel writing so unfashionable and even regarded by some as simply “wrong”?
Napoleon’s shifting reputation
Professor Jeremy Black speaks to Graham Stewart about Napoleon’s reputation
Freedom to expose
Do historians and biographers have a moral right to be shown classified documents?
He’s not the Messiah!
Robert Thicknesse ruminates on The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko
An affront to justice
New safeguards are needed after the Post Office acted as investigator and prosecutor
You can’t handle the chaos
Gove? Mitchell Gove? Sorry, Michael? No, never heard of him, why?
The un-cancelled
It seems cancel culture is starting to lose its power
Letter from Budapest
Tibor Fischer discovers the first of many Roger Scruton cafés
Debutant novels and great expectations
John Self on debut novels that provide an insight into publishing in Britain
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
One small step for Jenrick…
…one giant disappointment for Mel Stride
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
