Race
The American nightmare
America’s toxic racial politics cannot be allowed to take root in Britain
Doubling down on a fraud
Recalling the murky role played by civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton in a notorious faked abduction case
Is cultural conservatism the key to educational success?
Culture beats race and even class when it comes to pupil performance
Time to end the grievance-industrial complex
The Sewell report provides a path out of division and towards an inclusive conservatism
Diversity north of Dundee
A Highlands culture war
Out of the blue
Despite some political hang-ups, James Fox provides diverting stories on the history of colour
The England riots: Ten years on
Did we learn any lessons?
Black lives matter
Knife crime is predominantly black on black, so don’t hold the police back
Letter from Washington: Why critical race theory matters
A bad idea is a serious problem
The problem with reporting “ethnic pay gaps”
Pay disparity does not prove an underlying system of discrimination
What is truth? The ethics of memorials
A poorly-researched rush to judgement in both Oxford and Cambridge may not have served campaigners well
Britain, 2049
You’ll own nothing, and you won’t be particularly happy about it
The battlefield priest
Heroism, compassion and enduring hope: the lost war letters of Canon Laurie
The truth about the Grand Mufti’s visit to the UK
Shakwi Allam speaks the language of religious pluralism to western audiences, but sanctions persecution within Egypt
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
Accusations of transphobia are pure misdirection
Barrister Robin Moira White has falsely accused the AEA of “transphobia” for defending women’s rights
Pipe down and play up
We need more silence in sport
The bacchanalia of Kawanabe Kyōsai
This exhibition at the Royal Academy revels in the artist’s versatility
The original, best and shortest English opera
John Blow, Venus and Adonis; Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (HGO)
How do you solve a problem like memoir?
A new book by Melissa Febos gets right to the heart of the genre
Heroism and high strategy
The story of how British commandos did the impossible