Having decided long ago that literature is vastly superior to life, I occasionally have to disillusion my students by pointing out that...

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoombe has suggested the imposition of a 6:00pm curfew for men, as a novel solution to the problem of violence...

George Orwell once asked readers of his column in Tribune whether they had any good reason for believing that the earth was round. His...

Although the pubs are closed, in the town where I live at least, some of the cafés have been allowed to stay open in a limited fashion....

In times of stress, which occur with increasing frequency these days, I find myself turning to Toby Young’s Lockdown Sceptics website...

I have said a great many foolish things in my lifetime, and I have said a fair number of things that have been laughed at and dismissed...

The greatest generation are all dead. We, their children and grandchildren, all too often tell variations of a similar story: sorting...

George Monbiot’s proposal that the government should clamp down on Covid lies (Guardian Opinion, 27 January) is clearly well-intentioned....

At first it seemed puzzling. Why did so many of those on the Left who were eager to condemn Boris Johnson as a Fascist when he won the...

Politics is boring, or, at least, it ought to be. The alternative to boredom has all too frequently been terror, in which grey suits are...

“I know there are people in the world who do not love their fellow human beings,” remarked Tom Lehrer in the introduction to “National...

In Saki’s 1913 novel, When William Came, Murray Yeovil returns from a long convalescence in Russia to find England under German...