Artillery Row
The Silicon Valley English Dictionary
Twitter’s engineers agree that prejudice is hard-coded in our language
Wokeism is Latter Day Puritanism
Today’s political conflicts replay past battles between Britain’s libertarian and puritan traditions, argues historian Nigel Jones
The silence of the self-censoring writers
Our writers must be bold enough to write the words they want to write, independent, and stronger for that
The book to read if you’re intent on visiting Sri Lanka
A S H Smyth on Andrew Fidel Fernando’s Upon a Sleepless Isle, winner of the 2019 Gratiaen Prize
Going Dutch with Rishi Sunak
Can the Chancellor really be all give and no take?
Inside the academic war on free speech
Good-quality academics are being filtered out due to an illiberal culture of ‘cancelling’ on university campuses
Emperor Haile Selassie gets the Ozymandias treatment
The Ethiopian emperor has fallen in leafy Wimbledon, but there’s more to his demise than meets the eye
Ratifying the Istanbul Convention won’t protect British women
We must not empower an international body to meddle in matters which should be left to our own lawmakers
In memoriam Ennio Morricone: the man who defined film scoring
Alexander Larman remembers one of the most prolific composers in Hollywood
Did George Floyd’s killing give me black privilege?
My time inside the Holodeck was exhilarating, but like all addictions it just masked my other problems and never addressed reality