Interview
Malaysia’s former PM says the French think insulting people is “a human right”
Kapil Komireddi interviews Dr Mahathir Mohamad about the decapitation of Samuel Paty in France, China’s treatment of Muslims, Kashmir, Brexit, and Jewish influence.
The Critic Interview: Grayson Perry
Richard Brooks accompanies the Turner Prize-winning artist around his new show and explores his troubled pre-therapy youth
The political disruptor
Jon Moynihan: The flamboyant businessman who played a key role in Brexit
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
Taking Pride
If sexual orientation is not a choice and therefore nothing to be ashamed of, then it can be nothing to be proud of either
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
