Holyrood inquiry
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist