Tony Blair was right to take on the Taliban after 9/11

The Christ Church coup attempt is fast morphing into a much darker fiasco

Industrial scale drinking, courting communists and winning the “Golden Bollock”

Robin Ashenden talks to the prescient Lionel Shriver about cancel culture

Even a good retreat would not have rescued a bad war

John Self welcomes the reissue of three works by Brian Moore, one of Northern Ireland few novelists who can stand toe-to-toe with the contemporary greats

A.S.H. Smyth yomps to the scant, wind-battered ruins of the first British colony on the Falkland Islands

Young people need to be taught resilience, not how to revel in trauma and fragility

Extravagant plans for a greener country will provide cold comfort for ordinary people

Jonathon Green says the xenophobic 1920s novels that inspired his lifelong love of literature should not be cancelled