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’
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken