Roald Dahl
Speaking English is colonial terrorism
In fact, what’s so good about speech anyway?
The great relabelling
Linguistic tweaks won’t save us all
Is it time to cancel Roald Dahl – or to celebrate him?
We should treat Roald Dahl as a naïve and unworldly man who never entirely left the realm of make-believe
Save St John’s Voices
The glorious tradition of British choral singing should be defended
The students are revolting
Far too many young people are sheltered from the real world by their university education
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
