Racism
The trial of the Mangrove Nine
Steve McQueen’s dramatisation of the 1970 trial of the Mangrove Nine is a triumph
Why I’m no longer talking to black people about race
The race debate has been taken over by grifters with a vested interest in a booming equalities industry
The wrong kind of race murder
It’s double standards that the killing of white schoolboy Richard Everitt achieved none of the notoriety of Stephen Lawrence’s death
Why non-racist whites are racist
Titania McGrath’s take on a thrilling year for racial equality
Disclaimer: Mel Brooks is cancelled
HBO attempts to protect snowflakes from Blazing Saddles
BLM racists don’t speak for me
How have racial slurs become progressive politics?
Can victims forgive?
The case of France’s George Floyd, Adama Traoré
Saying racists are racist is better than more silence
Twitter bans and self-denying ordinances won’t erase anti-semitism
Vive Le Roi!: St. Louis refuses to cancel St. Louis.
How St Louis’s statue of King Louis IX will not be toppled
White Supremacists: Anti-racists need you!
Ewa Dymek & Mateusz Dymek review Me and White Supremacy, by Layla Saad
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
How big a problem is problem gambling?
Jolyon Maugham should not roll the dice on opposing GambleAware
