Augustine of Hippo
In praise of conversion
Like LGBT campaigners Augustine of Hippo found conversion to be an unbearable assault on his identity
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
