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’?’
Carrying water for freedom
Hong Kong’s protestors are brave and, so far, successful. The Chinese Communist Party leadership must be kicking itself
Discussions with a stone wall
Britain’s main gay rights organisation is risking its own future by adopting gender self-ID as its new cause
In the heartlands of white-flag academia
When I tried to find out why my pro-Brexit article was turned down I was rebuffed — showing the intellectual conformism of universities