Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
150 years of Palm Beach
Paul du Quenoy learns how this enclave for the American elite shifted from swamp to swank in Russell Kelley’s: An Illustrated History of Palm Beach
Cancel culture comes for Dr Seuss
Is the Democratic Party under Joe Biden becoming the party of banning books?
Donald Trump is back and firmly in control of the Republican Party
The message of a resounding speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference on 28 February was clear: Trump is back and here to stay
Moping about Muppets: Another humiliation for Disney
The Muppet Show’s widened appeal has become Disney’s Achilles’ heel as the puppet show becomes the latest victim of cancel culture
Congressman Trump?: Donald Trump’s surest path back to power
The idea of Trump running for Congressional office may sound unconventional, but the former president has never been one to toe the line
Using the Force against wokeness: A galactic scandal for Disney
The cancellation of Gina Carano proves that freedom of expression in Hollywood is increasingly under threat
Inscrutable Wagner
Roger Scruton’s appreciation of Richard Wagner will remain an important and inexhaustible part of his legacy
Why the impeachment trial will embolden Trump
Trump’s home in Florida shows no sign of becoming a quiet retirement retreat as Palm Beach looks set to become the Republican Party’s ideological headquarters
Remembering James R. Flynn: scholar and free speech advocate
Paul du Quenoy offers an appreciation of the late scholar and free speech advocate James R. Flynn
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
Fear and favour
Are the police guilty of a “two tier” approach? They are if their own “Police Race Action Plan” is to be believed
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
The riots and the social media blame game
Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings
Confessions of a left-wing Pope
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
