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Samuel Beckett
A prize-winning old fraud
The human rights era failed us
More than 70 years into the human rights era, the world is no more peaceful or tolerant
Allies at war
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the British contribution to the Allied victory
Laughing laureate of Western decline
Michel Houellebecq’s prescient, mocking critiques of our debased modern world
Is he bovvered?
Boris can do compassion. When he can be bothered.
An interview with the Prime Minister of Montenegro
The bullish but beleaguered PM has more enemies at home than he does abroad
Baby steps
The Government won’t ban pro-life campaigners from abortion clinics
Richard Donner: an underrated director
Suggestions that Donner was a director-for-hire rather than a true auteur are harsh and inaccurate
Bestiality is worse than eating meat
Tom Chivers is wrong about having sex with animals
In search of the right stuff
Why are there so few conservatively-minded novelists?
Doublespeak about assisted suicide
The campaign for assisted suicide is distinctly Orwellian
The crisis of teaching
Everybody is to blame for the declining standards in universities
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
I did my job on the rape gangs, actually
The root of the grooming gangs scandal is misogyny
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
