Wallis Simpson
Wallis and Meghan – a tale of two abdications
There is a strong historical precedent for the ‘conscious uncoupling’ of the Sussexes
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
The never-ending question
Jonathan Gullis may still be in the middle of his parliamentary question
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
Fifth magician blues
He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums
The curious case of the “Gaylor” affair
Whatever the framing, the sexuality is the story
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought