Parkinsons
The wild north
On screen savage battles, middle-aged villains, decline and disease are reviewed by Robert Hutton
For we are one and unfree
Australia doesn’t care about free speech, and it doesn’t want to
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Alastair Campbell’s gender neutral nonsense
Alastair Campbell might not care about single-sex spaces, but women do
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
Killing with kindness
“Be kind” culture has abandoned adolescent girls
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
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
