My perfect castaway
Robin Ashenden whiled away a forced sojourn in Georgia by feasting on the back catalogue of Desert Island Discs and compiling a list of his favourite guests
What the Russians may be eating in Tbilisi
Georgian cuisine is a rose with few thorns
Stalin’s last laugh
Joseph Stalin has been recast in Russia not as a bloodsoaked tyrant, but as a strong, effective leader
Canary in the cultural coalmine
Robin Ashenden talks to the prescient Lionel Shriver about cancel culture
Khrushchev – shoe banger for a superpower
On the 50th anniversary of his death – what should we make of Nikita Khrushchev?
Kenneth Tynan: a riposte to Equity
Robin Ashenden says the critic would have declared war on an ill-judged edict
Thatcher’s ‘Wiring Diagram’ and why we need it once again
We need a new Hoskyns-inspired intervention to deal with today’s cultural crisis
March 2024: Letters to the Editor
Record-setting sons and founding fathers
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
History will judge us on gender
How can the modern world tolerate such absurdity?
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
Parents are being hypocritical about smartphones
Yes, kids use their phones too much, but what about adults?
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
A bitter pill
Women and girls are losing medical advice and safeguards in the name of “freedom”
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
