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Chris Harris as Dame Trott performs in Jack and the Beanstalk  (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
July 8, 2020

Why panto has its knockers It's sheer snobbery for the New York Times to dismiss pantomime — it might just save British theatre

Matthew Sweet

Tuesday
07.07

07.07

How the establishment fell for eugenics A shocking number of influential Britons used to think it necessary to wipe out 'inferior' citizens

Peter Franklin

Monday
06.07

06.07

America’s cultural revolution is just like Mao’s To many who survived the crackdown in China, events in the US are frighteningly familiar

Xiao Li

Friday
03.07

03.07

China’s modern genocide There's nothing new about the eugenics being practised in the Uighur "re-education" camps

Sarah Ditum

Thursday
02.07

02.07

The Church shouldn’t hide its sordid past If you pretend everything is perfect, there will be no grounds for redemption

Giles Fraser

Monday
29.06

29.06

Has BLM picked the wrong target? It's hard economics, not symbols, that will make the difference for black people

Remi Adekoya

Friday
26.06

26.06

Why doesn’t porn ever get cancelled? The industry has been remarkably adept at positioning itself as beyond questions of morality

Sarah Ditum

26.06

Pity the prisoners who remain locked up In lockdown we've learned that restricting people's freedoms leaves them unmoored from life

Carlo Gebler

Thursday
25.06

25.06

On your bike, Britain! Cycling liberated women in the 1890s, and is just the thing to free us from lockdown

Mary Kenny

Wednesday
24.06

24.06

The Tories’ shameful record on the homeless Will Covid will make us realise that something must be done about the poor?

James Bloodworth

Monday
22.06

22.06

The truth about the Battle of Dijon The orgy of violence stemmed from Chechen pride, not entrenched French racism

John Lichfield

Friday
19.06

19.06

The defector taking on Kim Jong-un Park Sang-hak is defying authorities in both North and South Korea to bring down the dictatorship

Ian Birrell