Columns

National debate used to be encouraged by the Anglican state — but those days are fast disappearing

The Faulks panel may prove to be a convenient fig leaf to allow government to override the rule of law

The coronavirus pandemic has allowed policymakers to revive discredited economic theories

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

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

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

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

Leave literary reviews to reviewers rather than score-settling academics

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

Macron aims to rewrite history, with Britain not far behind