Take novichok bitch, monkey brain, die! It all began with a Twitter discussion about the British bombing of Dresden. I said it was a good...

It’s not often I read something truly sickening; but the Sunday Times this weekend had an astonishing and repulsive report by Andrew Gilligan. A...

There is no getting away from the Peterson phenomenon. Over and above Brexit and the BBC, of the topics and people most likely to...

Whatever his motives, Boris Johnson’s remarks about Islamic dress have drawn attention to an area of extreme tension: the Muslim practice of sexual apartheid....

Sylvia Plath: Life Inside the Bell Jar, BBC Two Sylvia's mother, Aurelia Plath, once said that her daughter's problem was that she had no balance,...

A couple of weeks ago BBC Radio 4’s Front Row featured a complaint from art historian Bendor Grosvenor, grandson of the 5th Baron Ebury,...

Last week I watched Romeo and Juliet streamed live from the RSC in Stratford to a cinema near me. There were three of us...

Loveless. Film by Andrei Zvyagintsev. 127 mins. The film ends with a woman in a glass penthouse lumbering away on an exercise machine, slowly going...

Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston: HQ, £8.99 In 1860 the town of Takon, forty miles from Benin, West Africa, was destroyed in a few hours....

Astonishingly Margaret Atwood, that great saint of feminism, is facing a social media backlash after calling for due process (i.e. normal justice) for a...

Author Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSL, Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd Class, Nobel Prize winner, is now also a knight. ‘When I think back...

In May President Macron broke off from wrestling with Mrs Merkel over the future economic shape of Europe to deal with a more pressing...

Victims of the 1987 King’s Cross fire would be astonished to see the Grenfell inquiry with its private rooms, quiet areas and a prayer...

I had no interest in this royal wedding. From the yards of news coverage in the weeks beforehand, and from glimpses of overweight women...

‘I feel like a heretic being here,’ said the third-year history student next to me in the Oxford Union. ‘University opinion is default Left....

‘Do you mean you can find out the answer to it?’ said the March Hare. ‘Exactly so,’ said Alice. ‘Then you should say what you mean,’...