Sri Lanka
All double dutch
Andrew Cusack says the influence of the Netherlands’ seaborne empire can still be felt around the world, from Manhattan and South Africa to modern Sri Lanka
In-line, online, and where to draw the line
Notes on Colombo’s books and bookmen in the time of Covid-19
The book to read if you’re intent on visiting Sri Lanka
A S H Smyth on Andrew Fidel Fernando’s Upon a Sleepless Isle, winner of the 2019 Gratiaen Prize
Emerging from Sri Lanka’s lockdown: a morning at Colombo’s booksheds
A S H Smyth pays a visit to one of his favourite places in Colombo
May day, May day…
A letter from Colombo
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them