Is Saul Bellow Martin Amis’s true father?
Reviews of Martin Amis’s new book prove that the best questions are the ones that no one asks
The Spy, the Scholar and the British Academy
David Cannadine’s thoughtful commentary of the Anthony Blunt affair utilises previously unpublished sources
The death of Theatre Criticism
The great critics always began before they were forty. Who are their equivalents today?
Tolerance in America: what the resignations of Katz, Weiss & Sullivan tell us
Two journalists and an academic call for the end of censorship and intolerance
Why are we so interested in Historians?
The historians we love wrote about Big History at a time when Britain mattered
Watching the Riots: Berlin, Trilling and Bellow on the Sixties
The riots of the 1960s left a generation of intellectuals out in the cold. Will the George Floyd demonstrations do the same?
Clive James, the Kid from Kogarah
A tribute to the late Clive James, by David Herman
Intolerable intolerance
David Herman reviews The Tyranny of Virtue by Robert Boyers
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
