Christopher Hitchens
Liberalism’s lion
Christopher Hitchens remains unforgettable
Rediscovering Martin Amis
He made reading, and writing, fun
The King’s touch
What Diana and French philosophy can teach us about the need for monarchy
Hitchens: Safe and unsafe
He thought America’s leaders were unworthy of its potential as a great Enlightenment republic
A strident legacy
In the decade since his death, Christopher Hitchens’s weaknesses have become our own
Christopher Hitchens: the last cool columnist
Ten years on from Hitchens’s death, the past seems more foreign than ever
Christopher Hitchens’s War
Commentators used 9/11 to keep framing the world as liberty versus totalitarianism
Rogue male
Scoundrel, liar, cheat and toady, George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman is a creation of genius and a bracing antidote to our timid age
Christopher Hitchens and the culture war
Where would the late ciceronian speaker have fit into today’s polemical battles?
Terry Rant
Ageing controversialist
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
