Milton’s famous defence of free speech, Areopagitica, was a strange choice for the attorney general.
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Anything is possible in the world of computers games – except women who fight, apparently.
Proper horror should be more than just monsters and suspense.
What is it about Westerns that tempts so many musicians into ten-gallon hats?
Take the time to engage with poetry on your own terms.
The Wife: my research shows that this self-sacrificing form of wifehood is hardly history.
A tattooed professor explains how the unconventional became rather, well, ordinary. Will we now see more on show in the workplace?
The writings of John WIlmot, Earl of Rochester, were certainly obscene. But his poetry also gave us a new way of looking at the human condition.
The continued prevalence of fat stigma and shaming needs to be challenged.
Depression, addiction and misanthropy in cartoon form.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s funny, sassy, violent script doesn’t make a drama out of the two strong female leads, it normalises them.
No cheating, please.
Dwarf wrestling is a spectacle that harks back to the Victorian age of ‘freak shows’.
Research is changing how artists contribute to the world’s knowledge base.
Have you ever read a novel in the second person? You probably found it strange.
Northern dialects are actually close to original English – despite what southerners might say.
Everyone has a favourite novel that hasn’t made it to the screen. Here’s why.
Best known these days as the presenter of It’ll Be Alright on the Night, Norden was one of a generation of entertainers who got their start in uniform.
PTSD is a relatively modern term, but the symptoms are as old as civilisation itself.
Holding fixtures abroad may be a money spinner – but it’s not fair game.
Was the former Labour leader a paid-up Soviet spy? It’s time the security services told us once and for all.
In the mid-16th century, William Baldwin wrote a satire on Catholicism but waited a decade before publishing it. Sensible man.
Despite the parlous state of UK newspapers, the Scottish media landscape is ambitious enough to launch two new titles.
There’s a new Prince album coming out, two years after his death. Would the artist approve?
Will we soon no longer be able to discern which videos are real and which are fake?