In memoriam Simon Preston CBE, ob. 13.V.2022 & James Bowman CBE, ob. 27.III.2023

Ian McEwan has always tempered his shocking stories with polished prose

John Milton’s Paradise Lost is the greatest poem in the English language, yet it seems to be fading slowly from public view. Who could write a new national epic?

Proposals for constitutional reform will only weaken our parliamentary democracy

Censorship is not only desirable but necessary if a democratic society and its laws are to function correctly

A leading psychiatrist is worried that a new government bill threatens his groundbreaking talking therapy for gender dysphoria

A rosy-hued invocation of the Blitz spirit was a hopelessly misguided metaphor for the Covid pandemic

The philosopher charged with defending campus free speech is robustly independent, happy to take on vested interests — and not easily pigeonholed

Field Marshal William Slim was not only Britain’s greatest military field commander, but our finest soldier-writer, too

Henry Miller spent the last four years of his life hopelessly in love with a Playboy model 60 years his junior