Madeline Grant
Overrated: Harry Potter
The bland, humourless and one-dimensional boy wizard pales against his more interesting friends
Going backward
‘My particular bugbear is that inherently redundant phrase “forward planning”. Ever tried ‘backward planning’?’
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?