Columns
Dr Green’s Dictionary: Diversity
Diversity is our strength? Or has history shown us otherwise?
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
The day I was cancelled
A foolish figure of speech was enough to incur the hateful wrath of the politically correct mob
Bishops’ different hymnsheet
The Church of England has worked to broaden its diversity of background, but its diversity of opinion has declined
A plague on lazarettos
Buildings born of plagues do have a life as something other than problematic ruins
Gender and Josef K.
How it feels to be accused of crimes that don’t exist
Remove the kid gloves
“Votes for 16-year-olds” has exposed our incoherent attitude towards young people
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
Mass confusion
The Conservative elites are no match for superheroines like Greta Thunberg and Charlotte Proudman
Can jokes in terrible taste ever be funny?
Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”
Why are our politicians afraid of politics?
The depoliticisation of policy should concern us all
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
The Conservatives deserve to be taught a lesson
Bad behaviour has to come with consequences
Do the right thing
Doubling down will end the Tories as a party of government
The thorn in Starmer’s side
Why does Rosie Duffield scare the Labour leadership?
Spring fever
Disinformation journalism circles the drain
