Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi: what xe would have done
Seek out dissenting transphobes and punish them without mercy
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
