Mugged by misrepresentation
Mark Humphrys faces the loss of his university post, if the online mob succeeds
Study in prejudice
Richard Ingrams’ “roughing up” of G. K. Chesterton begs the question: who is creating a smokescreen around whom?
The simplest thing is difficult
Does Dominic Cummings know what he doesn’t know about Defence policy?
The most hateful decision
Honour, power and will at Mers-el-Kébir 80 years ago today
We can all be Gaullists today
Britain sustained de Gaulle. The general’s views on Britain should resonate now.
Righteous rioting is an imported concept
Are our rioters all Europeans now?
Free State or failed state?
The collapse of the Irish party system is news, there and abroad
We shouldn’t handle the truth about Coronavirus
There are grown-up reasons for the state and the plague is one
Fenian fantasist
No journalist has so vituperatively fed the ancestral hatreds and dormant furies of Ireland as Fintan O’Toole
Bis interimitur qui suis armis perit
It’s not all Greek to Oxford classicists
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Cometh the hour, cometh the dealmaker
Trump’s ego might be just what the world needs
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
