Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes plays the white man
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s many passions included a view of Empire that would today be regarded as racist
Why Sherlock Holmes remains the greatest detective
There is no need to make Sherlock Holmes more likeable, part of his brilliance is in his ambiguity
Why Britain needs Popular Conservatism
The Conservative Party has not fulfilled the promise of Brexit or overcome the legacy of Blair
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Why we should question the charge of “Islamophobia”
Valid criticism of beliefs and behaviour should not be equated with hateful bigotry
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Talk of conscription is pure fantasy politics
We do not have the forces, the seriousness or the need for a major ground war
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering