William Shakespeare
Chapter and verse on the unknowable Bard
The striking thing about Sir Stanley’s Shakespeare is how unsexy he is
Fat chance
Plus-sized actors and theatres rattling the begging bowl
The Bard of Balliol
Never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account
O blind new world
Behind modernity’s moralistic exhortations lies a cold-blooded mania for total control
The undiscovered country
Ian McKellen’s Hamlet meets impossibly high expectations
This way, madness lies
Using the name Shakespeare in your book title shouldn’t do anything for sales
Shakespearean lore and order
A new anthology displays Shakespeare’s engagement with the sonnet form across his career, but at a high cost
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
