Features
The lady vanishes
TV adaptations have masked the complexity and skill of Agatha Christie
The leftist who saved Britain
Both Blair and Biden ceded power to left wing rivals; only one was a success…
The mask of authority
All of us need to answer hard questions about the decisions we made during the pandemic
Slaves to bad history
The battle for academic rigour at the home of the Scottish Enlightenment
Danger: semantic engineers at work
The institutionalisation of gender-neutral language is designed to change how we think, feel and act
Literature’s year zero
One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever
Tom’s curious heirs
Lincoln Allison says the torrent of popular school stories that followed Tom Brown’s Schooldays inverted its central message of Christian reform
The EV delusion
Huge economic and infrastructure challenges must be overcome if electric vehicles are to become anything more than toys for middle class drivers
A crisis of truths
In our partisan, post-truth age of fake news and “follow the science”, the link between facts, narrative and power has never seemed more stark
For decency’s sake, let’s quit Strasbourg
The European Convention of Human Rights is now misinterpreted, misapplied and debases the currency of humanism