Simon Hoare
Getting the barnacles off
Simon Hoare and David Hoey debate the merits of the Northern Ireland Protocol
Free traders win round one
The Agriculture Bill was cleared of all protectionist amendments
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
