Peter McDonald
Peter McDonald is a senior civil servant and an amateur historian of endurance fell running.
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
Queen of the road
For a quarter of a century, not one British woman could surpass her
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
