Fake News
Matters of fact in a post-truth world
The message of The Constitution of Knowledge is one of hope, as Rauch urges those who resent the censors to “unmute” themselves
Did the anti-lockdown razor story really happen?
The BBC’s fact-checkers just can’t cut it
Rumourmongering in times of crisis
Nigel Jones compares the power of rumours in Wartime Britain with the fake news afflictions of our Covid-stricken society
Dinner at Brasenose? Unmasking the Secret Barrister
The Secret Barrister’s new book tears apart fake news and the notion of compensation culture
Fake news, Roman edition
Twisted tales are as old as time
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
The F-word
A serious accusation should be treated with appropriate seriousness
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
Alastair Campbell’s gender neutral nonsense
Alastair Campbell might not care about single-sex spaces, but women do
The soul of gender
How trans ideology appeals to deep spiritual instincts
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
Staying in place
How history and heritage enrich our surroundings
