Opinions

This week, we’re going to be talking about Israel—which is sometimes a subject I try to avoid—not because I don’t…

I.Éric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois (Perceval the Welshman, 1978), about a knight of King Arthur’s Round Table, is probably the…

On March 26, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced a new policy that ensures female Olympic sports categories will be…

On 28 March, around 50,000 people, according to figures provided by the police, marched through central London against what they…

I’m an English professor with an interest in computers. When the first AI chatbots came out a few years ago,…

Every communist state in history has either collapsed, reformed into something unrecognisable, or survived only through external life support. The…

I was always gifted in a few specific domains. I started to speak very late, but almost immediately in complete…

On Monday 26 June 2023, in a soulless corporate boardroom in Kensington, I listened to Israeli commentator Ehud Yaari deliver…

It is not normal to hear objections raised when universities award honorary doctoral degrees. The distinction, often conferred at happy…

I travel a lot, and this is one of my dad’s favourite things to brag about over coffee with his…

Tariq Ramadan is either a predatory manipulator who belongs behind bars or a calm voice of reason victimised by a…

Freya India’s recent book, GIRLS®: Gen Z and the Commodification of Everything, relates the struggles of young women growing up…