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Is it time to cancel Roald Dahl – or to celebrate him?
We should treat Roald Dahl as a naïve and unworldly man who never entirely left the realm of make-believe
I’m not going to panic because I don’t do that anymore
I feel like you’re being sabotaged by your inner saboteur
Power to the pigs and les keufs
France is competing with the UK to be every bit as draconian and liberty-infringing
A Royal fogey reassessed
Understanding George and his reign is crucial to our post-progressivist consideration of the history of patriotism
Why feminists should oppose the death penalty
Feminists should be against the death penalty on the basis that the criminal justice system is built upon sexism, racism and class prejudice
The assassination of Soleimani
The Arab Spring didn’t amount to much, but when the US killed Soleimani last year it was a unexpectedly positive counterpoint
Atlases aren’t dead yet
Jeremy Black pores over the latest offerings from the scholarly literature on cartography
Murders for January
Jeremy Black recommends the best murder mysteries to read in the New Year
Alfred Sherman: the original Downing Street maverick
The rise and fall of Dominic Cummings recalls the role of another eccentric who changed British politics
Is Foucault responsible for identity politics?
The pseudo-Foucault distorts Foucauldian doctrine not in pursuit of truth, but as a strategy of power