Jock Colville
The designated survivor
Churchill’s stroke in 1953 does not create a workable precedent for Dominic Raab to follow
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
Legal laughs
Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
The reality of tobacco control
To have a law does not mean that it will be respected
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
