Lionel Shriver
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 Venice Architecture Biennale
An exuberant return to the beleaguered lagoon city
It’s alright for some
The poorest will pay the highest price for Net Zero fantasies
Non-binary is no joke
Becoming “sex-less” allows people to opt out of sex-based rules
Can the power of information be controlled?
The internet democratised speech but with the new Online Safety Bill, politicians and the media are trying to put the genie back in the bottle
Broken eggs, no omelette
Baroness Williams believed until she died that comprehensive schools fostered equality. Her folly has only entrenched class privilege
How New Labour made Boris Johnson
Twenty years ago, the Conservative Party was at its lowest ebb. But on the night of New Labour’s greatest triumph, one man promised to revive their fortunes…
Re-building a library
Confessions of a bibliomaniac in the South Atlantic
Schoolboy error
The folly of public schools’ race to embrace the religion of wokeness
20 years of The Ricky Gervais Show
Ricky Gervais’s best comedy survives by fans swapping bootlegged recordings
Earning your pinstripes
There are times, even in our dressed-down age, when clothes maketh the deal