D.J. Taylor
D. J. Taylor’s Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature 1939-1951 and On Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Biography were both published in the autumn. He tweets at @djtaylorwriter
Why do we review books?
D.J. Taylor reflects on nearly four decades of hard graft on the literary pages
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
When will bishops be held to account?
If you challenge the progressive establishment, prepare to be abandoned by the hierarchy of the Church of England
Nightmare on Starmer Street?
Bigger government is coming — but there is no avoiding it
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
Revive the roots
To save the Conservative Party, its chairman must return powers to the local associations
Why “buffer stocks” don’t work
Yet again, economists have failed to understand Smith
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand