William Shakespeare
Shakespearean lore and order
A new anthology displays Shakespeare’s engagement with the sonnet form across his career, but at a high cost
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined