Queens
Ukraine war is not an example of “toxic masculinity”
History suggests that female rulers are far more likely to start wars than their male counterparts
A game of thrones
Shelley Puhak’s woman-versus-woman rivalry between queens is only part of the story
Have queens enjoyed the same authority as kings?
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the role of the queen in British and European history
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
