Microagressions
Misogynists and their handmaidens
The feminist fix: Silence will not protect you from bullies
Turning students into weapons
The control of free speech at universities is a first step on a path towards totalitarianism
Memoirs of a Microaggressor
Will Collins traces the aristocratic roots of the social justice warriors’ search for purity
What drove the colonisation of the Caribbean?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses Caribbean society pre-Columbus
A real nice clambake
The American classic is fine street-party fare
Send in the spivs
War offers so much more in the way of profitable procurement than even the pandemic
Love letter to the printed word
On the material culture of the book
Getting wrecked
Dame Ethel Smyth’s opera dated quickly, but it hardly hurts to have another look at it
Too dangerous to live with
There’s no realist case for the lurking risk of nuclear armageddon
Trans activist makes a fuss without facts
Trans people in the UK have all the same rights, and a few more besides
G.K. Chesterton and the pandemic
The prince of paradox predicted the absurdities of Covid lockdowns
Boris brings up the rear
The prime minister is consistent only in his untidiness and unpreparedness
Sunak leads the retreat
A windfall tax is apparently not a windfall tax if the Tories introduce it
The monster that lurks within us
The enduring popularity of fantasy and horror fiction proves that we still live in the long, dark shadow of the Gothic novel