Artillery Row

Is the myth of the “plucky Brit” false?

Professor Phillips O’Brien, Robert Hutton, and Graham Stewart discuss the British mindset during WWII

Christopher Hitchens: the last cool columnist

Ten years on from Hitchens’s death, the past seems more foreign than ever

It is time to bury Boris

Every day of Johnson as PM is another day in which the Tory party sinks deeper into crisis

An exercise in talking shop

Banning “conversion therapy” is not as simple as it seems

Walking a tightrope, tying themselves in knots

The Welsh Government’s new sex education curriculum is not fit for purpose

Plan stupid

Vaccine passports don’t work, but we’re getting them anyway

Misogynists and their handmaidens

The feminist fix: Silence will not protect you from bullies

Ferrucio Busoni: Elegies (Chandos)

British pianist Peter Donohoe’s recital is a perfect pick-me-up for Covid gloom

Bring back bawdiness

Bawdy humour and the pantomime go together like sausages and mash, whatever you make of that banger

Count the cost

The government is running out of time to stop messing up