Madagascar
Riotous isle of vanilla gangsters, lemurs and a DJ president
In his new book on Madagascar, John Gimlette tells of trouble in paradise
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
