John Sutherland
The joys and misery of Monica
This is not only an objective biography by a distinguished academic, it is also a warm personal memoir
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
The never-ending question
Jonathan Gullis may still be in the middle of his parliamentary question
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Religious freedom is back on the agenda
The International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill, currently before parliament, is an important step for securing Britain’s role in promoting religious liberty
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
