Francis Hoar
Liberty in lockdown
Is it time to release democracy from quarantine and resuscitate the rule of law?
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
Frock right off
Dresses, dogs and dinner
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Irish women are being stripped of constitutional rights
Article 41.2 makes maternity leave a woman’s right, not an obligation, so why do so-called “progressives” want to get rid of it?
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
