Sorry, Jeremy, but comparing Theresa May to Henry VIII is depressingly ignorant
Another day, another Tudor throwback. This time, Jeremy Corbyn has accused Theresa May of acting like Henry VIII by avoiding… See the full story of Sorry, Jeremy, but comparing Theresa May to Henry...
View ArticleEmma Rice was never as radical as she thought she was
Towards the end of Emma Rice’s recent production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of the mechanicals decides to give us a piece of her mind. ‘It’s a visual concept!’ screams Nandi Bhebhe’s Starveling...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s sinister threat to jail Hillary should worry us all
In the autumn of 2008, a gaggle of American conservatives gathered for a conference at that most godless of progressive institutions, Yale University. The mood was sombre: four days beforehand,...
View ArticleTheresa May really is acting like a Tudor monarch over Brexit
Over the weekend, it emerged that Theresa May likes to compare herself to Elizabeth I (although as I argue in my Telegraph column today, she’s been behaving more like the young Queen Victoria lately)....
View ArticleFrance’s burkini ban was an own goal for secularism
I’ve always hated the beach. The water? Great. The sunshine? Terrible. It starts with the hot trek across the sands to find a square of free ground – loaded up with factor 60, several books, a comedy...
View ArticleFive phrases to ban from the Tory leadership race
The race is on to get out of the bottom, as the Spice Girls never quite sang about Liam Fox. And isn’t it depressing? I don’t just mean the Conservative leadership contest itself – unlike the Labour...
View ArticleForget the fighting. We’re entering a period of unparalleled opportunity for...
Auf wiedersehen, Boris. He’ll be back, like a blond, bloated Voldemort inhabiting another life form – Top Gear host? Archbishop of York? Or endless BBC camping tours of Britain on a bike, the Portillo...
View ArticleIs the West ever going to stand up to Vladimir Putin?
If you walk down Holland Park Avenue, down the hill to Shepherd’s Bush, you’ll come across a statue wreathed with peonies, lit by a single candle. Two years ago, in February 2014, the flowers...
View ArticleThere’s nothing patriotic about William Blake’s Jerusalem
In this week’s diary, Tristram Hunt puts his money behind Jerusalem as a new English National Anthem. ‘God Save the Queen’ isn’t going anywhere as the United Kingdom’s theme, but there’s room for a...
View ArticleThere’s nothing confusing about a black actress playing Hermione Granger
A news producer rang up this morning, asking me to talk about ‘colour-blind casting’. Noma Dumezweni has just been cast as Hermione in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the stage sequel to JK...
View Article‘National security’ has become our main justification for war
I’ve been in touch with Anisa for just over a year, ever since I met her in a dingy refugee compound on the outskirts of Amman. She’s a super-educated young woman from Damascus (most of the early wave...
View ArticleHow can we defend our liberal heritage by abandoning its values?
Yusuf, when I last saw him, was still smiling, a middle-aged man with the greying pony-tail of a rock roadie. He described himself as a feminist: he met his wife through work, where, he told me...
View ArticleBoris shows a hint of Euroscepticism — but he still can’t beat Mary Beard
Thank God for Mary Beard. Sure, she’s wrong about Jeremy Corbyn. She was wrong about 9/11. She’s wrong about plenty. But let’s talk about what matters. She’s right about Ancient Rome. It’s rare to see...
View ArticleWhy I’m not sorry to see FHM go
So, farewell then, FHM. As Adrian Mole, 13 3/4 (years, not inches) and perhaps their target market, might have put it. Finally cowed, not by feminist protest, but by the big beast of the teen consumer...
View ArticleWill the free speech lobby accept Jeremy Corbyn’s right to be a republican?
On Wednesday night, Jeremy Corbyn brought to an end one of the most undignified sagas in recent politics, cobbling together a shuffled compromise on his induction into the Privy Council. The Privy...
View ArticleYale students have exercised their right to be treated like children
Shrieking girl. There it is. I’ve been trying to think of a less gendered, less belittling phrase for the subject of a video that went viral this weekend, a black female student at my alma mater, Yale...
View ArticleThe Tories can’t allow Corbyn a monopoly on morality
Amber Rudd will be keeping a low profile this weekend. The sight of a working mother on Question Time, tearfully confronting the Energy Secretary over cuts to working tax credits, won’t have made easy...
View ArticleWill Michael Gove dare to bring Christianity into his prison reform plans?
This April, Michael Gove wrote in The Spectator: ‘To call yourself a Christian in contemporary Britain is to invite pity, condescension or cool dismissal.’ Certainly, the titters it provoked in the...
View ArticleBanning provocateurs doesn’t silence them – it only amplifies their voices
I write about free speech. And I’m tired of writing about free speech. I’m tired of needing to write about free speech. I’m tired of needing to defend women’s freedom to discuss our long-contested...
View ArticleMaggie’s great, but can’t the US find an inspiring American woman to go on...
Banknotes, again. Now it’s America’s turn to suffer the unintended consequences of an ill-implemented campaign to inject some XX chromosomes into currency. In June, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew...
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