Have we lost our minds?
Our shallow and insincere public discourse pales by comparison to the bitter, but profound, politics of the Edwardian era
The Man who saved the firm
The Duke of Edinburgh’s genius was to ensure that the more the Royal family changed, the more it appeared to remain the same
The abuse of history
Universities need to rescue the teaching of history from grip of woke ideologues
Boris’s Corona Catastrophe
An indolent, blustering prime minister surrounded by supine, vacuous incompetents
Charismatic charlatan
Benjamin Disraeli could change his mind without turning a hair
A puritan but not a fanatic
Simon Heffer reviews Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate by Paul Lay
Free speech in an uncivil society
A climate of intolerance is threatening the pursuit of reason.
The rats and cowards who brought down a Titan
Simon Heffer on the final instalment of Charles Moore’s Thatcher biography and Paul Corthorn’s ‘Enoch Powell’
How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
