Canterbury Tales
Many lives of the first everywoman
Wife of Bath is a brand name all will recognise
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?