Cultural Appropriation
May 2021: Letters to the Editor
Slaves and sources
Post-colonial bad jokes
The whole history of the West is — to confound the simplicities of the woke — one gigantic act of “cultural appropriation”
Bad taste of PC foodies
Cultural appropriation in cooking is wonderful, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
A fistful of Gandhis
The condescending contrivances of diversified dosh
The final toll
Raise a glass and stay briefly silent tonight in remembrance of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
He being dead yet speaketh
Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint
Jane Austen and BLM: an historical interrogation
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a long-dead author who is beloved by millions will, eventually, find themselves dragged into controversy
Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires diary 6.0
Dominic Hilton comments on the latest perceived injustice in the capital, a man eating dog biscuits, and the strange meaning of numbers in Argentina
What Magdalen College students get wrong
It is bizarre in the extreme to focus criticism of empire on the Crown
Why the government’s planning overhaul won’t fix the housing crisis
Don’t waste an opportunity to solve Britain’s biggest problem
The easiest country to govern
Michael Coren on the churches aggressively resisting restrictions
The Thing: 40 years on
Left to freeze by Thatcher’s censors, The Thing has finally been recognised as John Carpenter’s best film
Re-building a library
Confessions of a bibliomaniac in the South Atlantic
The pride of the Republic of Poland
The President of Poland celebrates 230 years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s Constitution of 3 May 1791