Martin Luther King
What would MLK say in an age of Covid-19 segregation?
Many people may soon be facing a choice between civil disobedience and Covid-19 restrictions, for which the words of America’s iconic civil-rights leader remain boldly relevant
Fear and favour
Are the police guilty of a “two tier” approach? They are if their own “Police Race Action Plan” is to be believed
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
One small step for Jenrick…
…one giant disappointment for Mel Stride
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
