Edmund Burke, the liberal orator and bore, who had written in favour of American independence, now turned the full fury of his rhetoric on the ‘swinish multitude’. His ‘reflections’ on the French ...

A global cult sensation since it was born in the clubs of New York in the late 1990s, Hedwig and the Angry Inch stands the test of time.

I have spent the first three months of the past six years trying to become the 19th-century designer and activist William Morris. I grow my hair and beard to look like him, while immersing myself ...

Impostor syndrome was first described in 1978 by the psychologists Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Imes. It is now such a common phenomenon that organisations all across the world run seminars and ...

Your Excellencies, the Swinish guests, we are confident that the outcome of this dialogue will not only enrich the ongoing constitutional review process for those who need a ground law for ...

Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom, He writes here in a personal capacity. Against the Tyranny of the Majority In his wonderful little book Liberalism and Democracy (1988), in a chapter titled ‘The ...

I do not see now that any other system is possible. Perhaps some day we may secure a lowering of the tariff to less swinish levels and certain other reforms, but as a whole the system must stand.