Columns

The silence of the arts

Why have the arts not strained at the bonds laid upon them in the way earthier pursuits and pleasures have?

The courage to defeat Evil

Why are people fighting a long-dead slave trade rather than resisting the triumph of a real one?

Dr Green’s Dictionary: Diversity

Diversity is our strength? Or has history shown us otherwise?

A little too mature

In Brideshead, the overriding feeling is that surely the punchline is to come. It never does

Capturing the wrong picture

Why bother with accuracy when you can get away with approximation?

Who let the dons out?

Leave literary reviews to reviewers rather than score-settling academics

Gross injustice at the Court of Justice

A British lawyer is fighting her dismissal in a Kafkaesque post-Brexit judicial quagmire

History in the Age of Woke

Macron aims to rewrite history, with Britain not far behind

Why non-racist whites are racist

Titania McGrath’s take on a thrilling year for racial equality

The Whitehall rot sets in

This government caused the slump, but unlike Mrs Thatcher it has no fable for why the country suffered