Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
A forgotten writer brought to life
Shirley Hazzard stuck doggedly to exploring love — a theme unfashionable even then
Maine attraction
There is better crime fiction being written
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay