Diaries
A chip on his shoulder
The diaries of Chips Channon
In defence of reading diaries
We experience people at their most depressed and their most joyful; their most selfish and their most generous
Perceptive, witty and sure of himself
Beyond the embellishments of Alan Duncan’s private diaries lies a body of work making serious points about the role of parliament
World-class snob, first-class diarist
Andrew Roberts says that in these diaries, Channon takes snobbery to a truly pathological level
Eyes on a miserly prize
It’s not just owners who are being fleeced
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
The Democratic Party deserves Donald Trump
Its arrogance and complacency have been exposed
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police
