Julie Burchill
Publish — or be damned
There’s no wonder that books are becoming more conformist when freedom of expression is being curtailed
Julie Burchill – a national treasure?
The former Queen of the Groucho Club, for all her contradictions, is a rare voice of courage in an increasingly conformist world
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
