Humour
Fart for art’s sake
A not-so-fond farewell to the “sophomoric male”, the man-child purveyor of infantile humour
Bring back bawdiness
Bawdy humour and the pantomime go together like sausages and mash, whatever you make of that banger
Where is the Waugh or Wodehouse of our time?
Comic writing: light distraction or social mirror?
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
