Blackface is evil — why isn’t drag?
‘Why is it unacceptable for white people to dress up as black, but harmless fun when men dress up as women?’
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
A well-armed corporation
'William Dalrymple dismantles the inadequacies of prep school history: Britain was a relatively poor, agricultural nation in 1599, while much of India was populous and rich'
A view from the ramparts
The West spends too much money on weapons and too little time on promoting its real strength: ideas
Arise ye unwoke from your slumbers
Our tolerance of intolerance must end. It’s time to reclaim the sanity of both public and private spaces with a counter-revolution
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'
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