Flashman
Rogue male
Scoundrel, liar, cheat and toady, George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman is a creation of genius and a bracing antidote to our timid age
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
Sherlock Holmes and the BBC bias
Eamonn Holmes will get to the bottom of the mystery of what happened to his career
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us