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Free speech is under threat in Northern Ireland
New hate crime proposals could make Northern Ireland the least free part of the UK
How the Second World War was mapped
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about a vital factor in wartime production that military history often overlooks
The BBC’s worst mistake
A separate channel dedicated to British sport could have saved the BBC
Memoir of a troubled woman
Friends and Enemies by Barbara Amiel is an extraordinary work of self-revelation
Our human right to be kept in the dark
Andrew Tettenborn says we should be able to hear, read and say what we want without the threat of undemocratic human rights law
A feast, plain and simple
You wait ages for a decent Irish cookbook, then two arrive together, says Melanie McDonagh
Pleasures of the plague year
Lisa Hilton welcomes the locals back to Venice and enjoys a spicy nod to the city’s vibrant past
Etone for your sins
“Vulva owners”, Eton’s woke head master, and the BBC’s hagiography of BLM
The never-ending inquiries into the murder of Pat Finucane
Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis has announced further reviews to appease the incoming Biden administration
The freedom to achieve freedom
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed 99 years ago this week. As Brexit talks enter the last lap, Nigel Jones argues that the Treaty could offer a model to follow
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Champagne in the membrane
Alcohol is not a major risk factor for dementia
Lock her up
And, simultaneously, let him go
