India
Churchill and the genocide myth
Zareer Masani says the wartime prime minister has been unfairly vilified over the 1943 Indian famine
Indira Gandhi: a gift from the gods?
How India’s first – and only – female prime minister exploited a Hindu goddess
Why does the BBC need to lie about Britain’s history?
Indian nationalist fantasies about the Bengal famine can’t be the point of the licence fee
The man who reinvented India
On 99th anniversary of PV Narasimha Rao’s birth it is time to rehabilitate a traduced politician
How Modi turned Covid-19 into a cash machine
For the Indian premier, the virus is a deus ex machina
Modi’s ghastly Delhi dream
The plan to remodel Lutyens’s grand capital is a monument to conceit
India’s rape crisis
India is gripped by a “rape emergency”, a brutal conflict that is escalating
The anarchy lacks context
Dalrymple’s Anarchy says more about about a selling machine somewhat different to the East India Company
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
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