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 Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
The cowards, the pretenders and the woman-haters
Awkwardness is no excuse for not supporting the gender-critical cause
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
