Émile Zola
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
A writer unsure who he wanted to be
Emile Zola: A Determined Life by Robert Lethbridge; Émile Zola: Writing Modern Life by Rachel Bowlby
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent