Ayatollah Khomeini
Inside the Iranian diaspora
How the US government and the FBI dealt with Sadeq Qotbzadeh and other opponents of Tehran in the time of the Shah
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
Britons need real ownership, not feudal leaseholds
We should shake up an outdated and restrictive system that offers a simulation of property ownership
Dune and progressive media illiteracy
Leftist moralism obscures thematic depth in its frantic rush to judge
