Oxfam
The myth of an extractive empire
Oxfam’s attack on the British Raj is historically and economically confused
Oxfam’s heart of darkness
The story of women in third world countries being abused by charity workers recurs with worrying inevitably
The demise of the second-hand bookshop
Why Oxfam bookshops, as tremendous as they are, may be the end of the second-hand bookseller
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity