Israel
Murders for the start of February
A good novel as detective story, and the detective story as a good novel
Professor Gopal has the Varsity blues
Fighting antisemitism is not a “conflict of interest”
Shifting the goalposts on Israel
A partisan report distorts the law as well as the facts on the Palestinian question
December/January: Letters to the Editor
There needs to be a more balanced assessment of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Stateless in Gaza
Gaza can no longer be left to rot
Sally Rooney and cultural boycotts
Rooney has now run into greater controversy than simple literary taste
Arafat and me
David Smith on the time he spent with Yasir Arafat, the former Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization
A widow’s might
The Widow is intelligent television that probes the dark side of the international aid industry
The organised anger of Israel’s Arab citizens
The violence that’s receiving much less media coverage than Gaza
Pointless bloodshed
Israel will remain intact and strong. Gaza will stay poor and isolated
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
Not amused: Victoria in her own words
Beneath the excitable phrases and endless underlining, Victoria’s correspondence doggedly promoted a coherent policy
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
Can we balance re-enchantment and reality?
We should not throw out the civilisational baby with the consumerist bathwater
Gregory Snaith: Little Magazine Editor
Only Gregory seemed prepared to upset the applecart
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
