Billy Bunter
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?