Herman Wouk
American Tolstoy
Time to proclaim the greatness of Herman Wouk, once feted for the sweep of his historical novels
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
Is public health a protected belief?
A new case will decide if prohibitionism in the name of public health constitutes a philosophical belief under the Equality Act
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
