Oysters
The call of the wild
Hunting for the pot is now strictly a hobby, but you can fake it, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one