Leigh Francis
“Will you stop talking about the war!”
Are we watching a Stalinist show trial, with hitherto dissident figures loudly recanting any support for past regimes?
Why are we ignoring the slaughter in Sudan?
There is no excuse for indifference when we pay such close attention to other wars
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
The W-word
The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
In the name of God, lead
The Prime Minister appears terrified of making a stand against racism in his own party