Famine
Afiya and me: searching for East Africa’s lost tribe
David Smith recalls his time as a journalist covering the devastating famine in Karamoja, northern Uganda, in the 1980s
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it