Profile
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
The political disruptor
Jon Moynihan: The flamboyant businessman who played a key role in Brexit
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
A bitter pill
Women and girls are losing medical advice and safeguards in the name of “freedom”
SEEN should be heard
A new group aims to remind the police to act without fear or favour
The problem with puberty blockers
Ministers must step in to prevent the NHS from experimenting on children
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
Fifth magician blues
He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement