Harold Nicolson
What happened to literary politicians?
The decline of literary statespeople is a symptom of the decline of politics
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness