James Callaghan
Britain’s last conservative prime minister
A new collection of essays provides a welcome reappraisal of Labour leader James Callaghan, says Graham Stewart
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
The never-ending question
Jonathan Gullis may still be in the middle of his parliamentary question
The reality of tobacco control
To have a law does not mean that it will be respected
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
