Richard Davenport-Hines
Richard Davenport-Hines is a British historian and literary biographer.
The unmaking of the Athenaeum
The venerable club is being spoiled by ideology
Stop pampering the left’s attack dog
Hope not Hate are not a reliable judge of what constitutes dangerous extremism
The intimacy of thoughts
An excess of technology burdens a cerebral adaptation
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Children of the apocalypse
When you tell young people that the end of the world is coming, what do you expect them to do?
Keir Starmer cannot ignore us
The gender debate is not going to disappear
Artificially Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material is not a victimless crime
The often-raised theory that AI-CSAM is harmless or can even make children safer, must be quashed
Reasons to be cheerful
Ten things that are wonderful about British racing
On the Cusk of austerity
A cerebral critic pleaser, a dramatic crowd pleaser, and a perennial favourite
This isn’t about me
Who? Me? A future Conservative Party leader? Well, if you say so…