An interview with Saafir showed up on my Instagram feed last November. Jason Moran posted it with the caption: ...

When Neville Chamberlain declared war in September 1939, the Conservatives had been in power for a couple of decades, interrupted only briefly by the first two Labour governments. They had been in ...

Andrade tried out Surrealist poetry and wrote an ironic novel with the painfully abstract title Amar, Verbo Intransitivo. It ...

My goal was just to stay safe in Sudan. But I realised I wouldn’t have a chance to study and started thinking of Europe.’ His ...

Behind this anti-establishment mood, which has rankled in British politics for many years now, lies the nastier ...

Every chapter of What Is Free Speech? makes you think afresh about the subject. What repeatedly surprises Dabhoiwala, and us, ...

A champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag, Whitman announces in the first pages of Specimen ...

Hayek had understood that persuading any society to accept the rigours of capitalist freedom was never going to be easy.

Steve Bannon doesn’t like him. Before the conclave, he named Cardinal Robert Prevost as ‘one of the dark horses’ to become the next pope. ‘Unfortunately, he’s one of the most progressive,’ Bannon ...

What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea by Fara Dabhoiwala. Allen Lane, 472 pp., £30, March, 978 0 241 34747 8 ...