Lord Lebedev
We need more Lord Lebedevs
Evgeny Lebedev’s peerage should be celebrated – other members of the Lords have much closer links to the Kremlin.
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others