Tristram Shandy
Tristram and the tyrants
Laurence Sterne’s 250-year-old masterpiece is a radical, riotous celebration of liberty loathed by both Nazis and communists
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
The cowards, the pretenders and the woman-haters
Awkwardness is no excuse for not supporting the gender-critical cause
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
In the name of God, lead
The Prime Minister appears terrified of making a stand against racism in his own party