Interview
Where are the Parkies of tomorrow?
In a risk averse world of fakes and phonies, the ever-authentic Sir Michael Parkinson is sorely missed
Toppling Babel
How truckers took on Trudeau
Canary in the cultural coalmine
Robin Ashenden talks to the prescient Lionel Shriver about cancel culture
Lots in translation
As the winner of the International Booker Prize is due to be announced today, ASH Smyth talks to poet, translator and judge on this year’s panel, George Szirtes
The pleasures and the pain
Christopher North speaks to the fearless Andrés Roca Rey, Peru’s first bull fighting star
Senator Marco Rubio says business-as-usual with Beijing is “not an option”
In an exclusive interview with Kapil Komireddi, the US senator condemns the Communist Party of China as a “genocidal regime” which poses “the greatest threat” to international peace and security
Antarctic adventure
From the submarine service to the world’s southernmost sub-post office, A S H Smyth interviews Sally Owen, a Falklands-based dentist who also helps to conserve the historic sites of Antarctica
The radical feminist campaigner who has ‘nothing left to lose’
Marguerite Stern, a feminist activist who was attacked yesterday in France, speaks to Julie Bindel about why she will never give up campaigning for the rights of women and girls
Surviving the straits of hell
An old press cutting provided the key to a defiant tale of life after Auschwitz
What makes a Penguin Classic?
Alexander Larman talks to the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics, Henry Eliot about what makes a ‘modern classic’
Overmedicalisation is harming Generation Z
Zoomers are fragile because they have been told they are
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
Murders for March
Sharp lines, twisting plots and colourful characters
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
