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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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Why violence is political
Attempts to de-politicise the murder of Anne Widdecombe will fail
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party