Artillery Row

Spare the rod

Spoiled beaks and free thought at Eton

All the news fit to post

Are Freedom of Information requests really being politically policed by the Cabinet Office?

The child trans judgement is a step in the right direction

The ruling that under 16s should be assumed unable to consent to puberty blockers means that this unregulated experiment may finally be drawing to a close

The nation’s favourite: why Coronation Street matters

As Coronation Street celebrates its diamond jubilee, is it time to take it seriously as the chronicler of our times?

The lives of philosophers

British philosophy has become much more interesting, but they just don’t make philosophers like they used to

John Luther Adams: The ‘Become’ trilogy (cantaloupe)

You will either feel very relaxed by the middle of the piece or you will throw things at the wall and say some very bad words

Feminist art historians get Artemisia Gentileschi wrong

Contemporary feminist art theory: little help in understanding a seventeenth century artist

Mapping the past

The new edition of Tom Harper’s ‘Atlas: A World of Maps’ is an instructive as well as attractive volume

The roaring boy Macbeth

Why Peter O’Toole’s 1980 performance at the Old Vic is remembered for all the wrong reasons

What follows the abolition of fixed-term parliaments?

Will the Supreme Court seize the power to adjudicate on the calling of general elections?