Frederick Balsir Chatterton
Tragic hero of Drury Lane
This meticulous account gives Frederick Chatterton a deserved and belated spotlight
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Don’t ban the billboards
Campaigns against advertising are pure public health fanaticism
Immigration enthusiasts and problematic polling
New analysis made British voters look far more pro-migration than they are
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
The cowards, the pretenders and the woman-haters
Awkwardness is no excuse for not supporting the gender-critical cause
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England