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 power of the pageant
Our enchanted, sometimes absurd, monarchy is one of the last focuses of common cultural experience
Don’t mock the Med mindset
What the Spanish have lost in international relevance, they make up in appreciating life
The right to a wrong-time to party
The Prime Minister remains sorry but not sorry
We are failing rape victims
The vulnerable are sacrificed to indulge the entitled
The decline of the UK art market
The UK’s prominence as a place to buy and sell the most prestigious art is under sustained threat
Cleaning up
The fate of a Whitehall cleaner, Emanuel Gomes, should not be brushed aside
“Dear Ezra … Yours Ever, B Bunting”
The voice of a poet whose chequered career reads like a cockeyed novel
People of class?
Enough with the inequalities Olympics
It’s a flying shame
A travel editor gives up planes… for a year
The coming Tory crack-up
The MPs are at odds with the members
Feminists under fire
We defend women’s rights and get abuse from progressives