Statues
E Pluribus Unum?
View From Oxford: A tale of two Presidents
Will Cecil Rhodes survive the baying mob?
View from Oxford: whether Rhodes falls or stands there will come from competing corners criticism, ridicule, and contempt
Maggi Hambling’s sculpture is simply bad art
Perhaps if it were a simply better artwork, then Hambling’s statue would have been more warmly received
Critic Columnist Suspended
Our fearless woke columnist has been mistaken for an evil right-wing satirist
No change please, we’re British
A new counter-petition campaign is a conservative response to iconoclasm
Emperor Haile Selassie gets the Ozymandias treatment
The Ethiopian emperor has fallen in leafy Wimbledon, but there’s more to his demise than meets the eye
Losing without a fight
No one will say the truth to the one side that is waging the culture war. The only dog in this battle will win it
History wars
Churchill’s statue was attacked because he symbolises the continuity of the nation
Property is Speech
Tearing down Edward Colston’s statue conceals the past and suppresses the speech of the dead
Culture wars are about our society
The notion of collective racial guilt undermines all institutions
From the ashes, nothing
The façade of Robert Jenrick
The Trump days are over
History shows that Third Party tilts at the presidency don’t work
Why accusations of vaccine nationalism miss the mark
Rather than condemning governments for favouring their own citizens in this way, we should focus on how vaccine surplus can reach poorer parts of the world
Reality check: mathematics is not racist
Engaging with students on the history of mathematics would do far more than pretending that the subject abounds with racism
IDS – I nearly walked out on Xi Jinping’s address to parliament
Duncan Smith sees TPP membership as a means of securing an Anglo-American counterbalance to China in Asia-Pacific
An island for asylum
Is the Home Office serious about sending asylum seekers to a British island?
An eye for the world after Trump
Senator Tom Cotton ticks all the Republican White House boxes – provided the last incumbent bows out
The moral injuries in store for NHS workers
Research is revealing invisible injuries beyond the traditional diagnosis of PTSD, with important applications for healthcare staff caught up in battling Covid-19
One year of Sir Keir
How does Starmer compare to Thatcher, Blair and Cameron?
Moving beyond the text
La Clemenza di Tito, Geneva