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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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear