Islamophobia
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
Why we should question the charge of “Islamophobia”
Valid criticism of beliefs and behaviour should not be equated with hateful bigotry
Gutless humanism
In their war on all things religious, Humanists UK likes to pick soft targets
A killer in a Spanish church
Why does nobody dare to state the connection between terror attacks and Muslim immigration?
Terrorism in prisons
A new report opens the lid on a growing problem
Dissing Darth Vader
Longtime Scout leader Brian Walker paid the price for his Christian views
Terror and its apologists
The liberal left’s excuses mask the real culprit behind terror attacks
Silenced at Speakers’ Corner
Hate crimes operate as a contemporary, de facto blasphemy law
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
