A Suez Affair
The public and the private are always swirling around, in a fluid, ever-changing relationship
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Does the Arts Club Have Good Taste?
In the dictionary on my laptop it defines art as “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination”. To me, that’s cooking
A Modest Proposal for Rugby
No doubt the haka is all very well in its time and place – but that place was long ago and far away. It’s essentially a cannibal war dance designed to scare
ONLINE ONLY: A Confrontation in London
Most of us, thankfully, still have relatively little direct experience of violent crime, although everyone but the most sheltered now suffers death by a thousand anti-social cuts, and the implicit threat they
As English as Warm Beer
I could not consent to the introduction into our national life of a device so alien to all our traditions as the referendum,” Clement Attlee told Winston Churchill in May 1945, “which
Beyond Comprehension
The Archbishop of Canterbury, it is said, was very surprised earlier this year by the furious response to his speech about civil and religious law. I am very much surprised that he
Admissions of Innocence
How Labour hates our ancient universities! There they are, acting as though their responsibility were to observe age-old standards and values of higher learning, when in the government’s eyes the proper function