Sebastian Horsley: equal parts Byronic dandy, Dickensian grotesque and Wildean poseur
Alexander Larman remembers his time with the decadent author, Sebastian Horsley, 10 years after his death
JK Rowling and the Wardens of Woke
The younger Harry Potter stars made their disagreement abundantly clear with the woman who made them
Hollywood or Hollywoke?
Can drama successfully rewrite history to satisfy modern sensitivities?
“Will you stop talking about the war!”
Are we watching a Stalinist show trial, with hitherto dissident figures loudly recanting any support for past regimes?
What the Dickens!
150 years since Dickens’s death, Alexander Larman evaluates the memorialised writer’s questionable politics
The geek shall inherit the earth
How a studio was bullied into releasing the first cut of an unsuccessful film
Why does The Shining still scare us?
A large part of its appeal revolves around a simple fact, it is utterly terrifying
It ran in the family
Alexander Larman reviews Fall of the House of Byron, by Emily Brand
‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ at 40: A book that can change your life
Alexander Larman recalls the glee and disbelief at one of literature’s most beguilingly horrible figures
Can Christopher Nolan save the cinema-going experience?
It is not just Nolan’s reputation that is on the line if Tenet is released in July
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
To infinity immigration and beyond
Soaring rates of citizenship applications show no signs of slowing down
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
International law, what is it good for?
International law should not be the sole guide to foreign policy