Hangover Square
Revisiting Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square
Hamilton first delivered this to his publishers 80 years ago in March 1941. What does a re-read of it tell us about the time that produced it?
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Who killed the Women’s Equality Party?
Taken over and destroyed by men
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
