Rajiv Gandhi
The man who reinvented India
On 99th anniversary of PV Narasimha Rao’s birth it is time to rehabilitate a traduced politician
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
The government is failing Northern Ireland
Its reputation will be stained forever by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant