Shamima Begum’s return to the front of the nation’s newspapers – and the trending page of Twitter – reminds me of a belligerent ex sending you a text message, just as you were getting...
Before you read this article, I would like to firstly thank my friends from China and former Soviet countries who helped me to write it, their insight and knowledge was very helpful to me....
My name is Damien Heads, and I have been active in and around the political scene for almost ten years. Throughout this time I have experienced profound changes in this country’s politics, both in...
We are living in a time of romantic ambivalence. A time where people are far less likely to meet organically, and one where people fear loyalty, commitment, settling down; all the things once valued...
Decayed and desacralized, gone are the days in which we can relish in romance without being called hopeless. An act once purely of love between a husband and wife, the artwork in which two...
I don’t watch RuPaul’s Drag Race, despite the widely held belief that gay men fell head over heels for it. I enjoy drag queens on the occasional night out, but I can’t say I’m...
The state of emergency caused by COVID-19 has not stopped the work of opinion columnists. If anything, it has increased it, as the lack of a commute has given people more time to think...
Whilst the musical tradition now known as European classical music is one of the towering accomplishments of western civilisation, many westerners either publicly proclaim or privately agree that “classical music is boring”. Whilst this...
There are certain films, such as Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and Genevieve (1953), which encapsulate for me everything Englishness is supposed to be. You could say these visions of England do not represent...
The two World Wars have, in ways beyond counting, defined our modern mindset; but while the Second World War is often a point of pride, where ‘Britain stood alone in defiance of evil’, the...
Columnists / Comment / Culture / Sarah Stook
The Satanic Verses: A Legacy | Sarah Stook
28 Feb, 2019
Columnists / Comment / Culture / Sarah Stook
Free Speech: Dead as a Dodo? | Sarah Stook
25 Apr, 2018
Our Readers Agree: Boris Has Done It!
19 Oct, 2019
