Columns
Singing Shane’s praises
A man with an appetite for victory, and everything else too
Hard times, hard truths
We must see beyond the myths surrounding the Ukraine crisis
“Good chaps” need not apply
Lord Chancellors who respect inconvenient unwritten rules are no longer welcome
The Rev Colin Godley: Media vicar
A man for all airwaves
Never trust a publisher
Once Twitter takes against you, they will wash their hands of you, Pontius Pilate-style
Going deep on the river
Make no mistake, the boat race is a blood sport
Ken’s troubles
The modern theatrical world isn’t kind to its older actors
Courting disaster
Number 10, as a court, is now more-or-less sui generis
It’s a wrap
London seems like a brave new world after touching down from Venice
Payton’s place as an icon
Sweet dreams are made of this
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
