Dan Hitchens
Students Are Leading The Free Speech Fightback
University campuses have become dangerous places to speak your mind. But the censors have suffered a number of recent reverses
Kind Hearts And Couplets
Two poets show that fierce emotion is not restricted by rhyme or meter
Shame On All Of You
Social media’s mob mentality
Better than a Grand Slam
Clive James: whether the culture is low or high, he is in it for the thrills
Dead Wrong
Eugenics in the modern world
Papal Subversives
John XXIII resisted totalitarianism and saved thousands of Slovakian Jews
The Intellectual of The Masses
John Carey sticks up for ‘ordinary life’ in his memoir The Unexpected Professor
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal