Samuel Pepys
Must we burn Samuel Pepys?
What the Pepys censors fail to grasp about the Restoration era
Wrangling over the writings of a rogue
Are we right to be amused by the diary of a sexual predator?
In defence of reading diaries
We experience people at their most depressed and their most joyful; their most selfish and their most generous
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?