Artillery Row
What it’s like to be cancelled
Why cancel culture has gone too far, with Toby Young, Mike Mcculloch and Nick Buckley
Something Changed: Can Jarvis Cocker recapture former glories in 2020?
Alexander Larman asks whether Jarvis Cocker’s latest album release will reignite his former success
Vive Le Roi!: St. Louis refuses to cancel St. Louis.
How St Louis’s statue of King Louis IX will not be toppled
Tolerance in America: what the resignations of Katz, Weiss & Sullivan tell us
Two journalists and an academic call for the end of censorship and intolerance
Who teaches Poles and what does Poland teach us?
Western lessons to be learnt from the Polish presidential election
Cancel Culture is coming for you
Not speaking up in the hope that it will pass you by is an illusion. It won’t save you
Writer Dodie Smith’s influences were far from Primrose Hill…
Instead of the chocolate-box pink stucco houses of Primrose Hill, it was the castles and cottages of Suffolk which served as Smith’s inspiration
Thomas Cromwell’s reputation
MacCulloch and Mantel have revealed a better side to the controversial Tudor statesman
How I discovered History
Remembering the Six Day War and history lessons from Dick Crossman
L’esprit de Boeuf
What sort of political XI will Botham join at Westminster?
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
Choosing enemies wisely
China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands
