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’
Big beasts versus the Bible
Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution
Could Trump be a world leader?
His sense of his own importance might not be suited to isolationism
Pissed Ofcom
An affront to the freedom of the press to do whatever it likes
Rosemary Sutcliff
A writer of genius, capable of conveying the feelings and lives of those who lived in the distant past
Brexit: a portrait of political paralysis
There was an exit door, but one which May, the Remainer, was never willing to take
Back in the big time
It is tempting to explain the turnaround in two words: “Unai” and “Emery”