Lionel Shriver
Canary in the cultural coalmine
Robin Ashenden talks to the prescient Lionel Shriver about cancel culture
You can’t make it up
Lisa Hilton asks whether Twitter mobs should be able to police the imagination of novelists and playwrights
The Lockdown Sceptics
The ‘liberators’ fighting back against the ‘ever-lockers’
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
