When New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared recently that “Woke 1 was crazy”, she set off a firestorm of speculation and opened a new front in the battle for the American left. Was the progressive superstar distancing...
George Orwell’s son has criticised the decision to drop his father’s Down and Out in Paris and London from an A-level English course and introduce a feminist account of his mother’s life. Orwell’s 1933 memoir has been removed from the English...
Don’t be fooled by the late summer rain. The world as we know it is getting too hot for life as we’d like it. The past month has shown what steadily rising average surface temperatures can do even in temperate Britain. They can make trees...
As Shakespeare might have said: “Now is the summer of our US debt made anxious autumn by this suntanned dork.” Apologies. It’s hard to make the American debt markets interesting. Worryingly, they are. US borrowing has become a global...
There’s something calming about the news that Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is coming back to England with her family. It seems she’s keen to go back to acting even if it means moving to where the work is. As a bonus it will give her husband a...