Blackface is evil — why isn’t drag?
Not just feet of clay, but a faceful. Justin Trudeau went into Canada’s election on October 21st amid a row about his past penchant for applying black and brown make-up in the
A well-armed corporation
A measure of advancing years is the realisation that you were taught that “Clive of India” (as he is no longer called) was a star figure in our colonial history, a brilliant
A view from the ramparts
‘We don’t need more military spending, we need less. We don’t need more soldiers, we need fewer’ As a simple soldier, it should not fall to me to lay bare the shortcomings
Arise ye unwoke from your slumbers
What’s to be done about the Woke revolution? Even its most vociferous critics rarely ask the question, let alone answer it. Meanwhile, champions in women’s sports boast stubble and penises; the police
Against all odds
When the whole nation is taking a huge punt on whether (or how) to leave the EU, a gambler’s memoirs are timely. Particularly when the author has spent large chunks of a
A conspiracy unmasked
Despite having no instinct for organisation and never using the jargon of modern business management, Margaret Thatcher had extraordinary political instincts. These are a central theme of Herself Alone, the third volume