Elijah Granet
Elijah Granet is a writer.
Our inquiry problem
British public inquiries take forever and achieve too little
Taking the clown seriously
Jolyon Maugham’s prose is funny, but his ideas are dangerous
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
