Carla Foster
Life is never premature
My son came into the world at 34 weeks – children like him deserve the protection of the law
Compassion demands justice
Tragic circumstances do not excuse horrendous crimes
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
No, Liz Truss did not crash the economy
The Conservatives should be brave enough to take on this stupid talking point
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
