Black Lives Matter
Denounce Black Peter – or else!
How a London loneliness charity excluded an old man for not conforming to its anti-racist agenda
Cancelled by the Federation of Small Businesses for questioning BLM
‘I was hounded out of an organisation that is supposed to be pro-business by advising against celebrating a movement that wants to dismantle capitalism’
E Pluribus Unum?
View From Oxford: A tale of two Presidents
Will Cecil Rhodes survive the baying mob?
View from Oxford: whether Rhodes falls or stands there will come from competing corners criticism, ridicule, and contempt
Perhaps Black Lives Matter was right about the nuclear family
James Jeffrey explains why he won’t be signing up for a BLM-mandated commune anytime soon
Stars, stripes and dollars
Michael Prodger on the artists who make huge sums for painting the US flag
The myth of overwhelming right-wing terrorism
Myth-makers are following fashion not evidence
Wise counsel
View from Oxford: Robert Beddard speaks from retirement
The National Trussed
The National Trust fails to re-educate its members, and a children’s home lectures us on white privilege
The sound of silence
View from Oxford: a letter to the Vice-Chancellor
Cracking good meals
Explore the splendid panoply of egg recipes for an Easter, feast, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Emerging from the shadow of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Placing the poems of Pre-Raphaelite muse Elizabeth Siddal in context
Are British universities unwittingly arming China?
Graham Stewart and David Scullion talk to Radomir Tylecote about how British universities are cooperating with organisations linked to the Chinese military
Jordan: The coup that wasn’t
The strength of Jordan’s Hashemite monarchy is a precious thing — and one which only gets its due in rare moments of turmoil
Biography and the perils of possessive families
Nigel Jones, a chastened practitioner of writing biographies, warns that writing someone’s life can be a dangerous venture
Lockdown has fostered a ‘shadow pandemic’ of violence against women
In the wake of Sarah Everard’s death, why has no one acknowledged that Lockdown has provided the ideal conditions for which violence against women can thrive?
Deeply flawed life of Cap’n Bob
Christopher Silvester reveals how this biography of Robert Maxwell is a skilfully constructed page-turner
Vaccine passports and the recalibration of social ethics
Vaccine passports would undermine one of the most fundamental rights in a civilised society: autonomy over one’s own body
How Gen Z became Gen Me
How the dominance of social media and mobile technology is making today’s teenagers less empathetic and more narcissistic
Make a bonfire of Dr Seuss
Titania McGrath on how book burning is the only way to defeat fascism