Black Spartacus
Black Spartacus
The winner of the Wolfson Prize for History significantly advances neither our knowledge of Toussaint Louverture nor Haiti
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics