The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Thinly-veiled but enjoyable nonsense
Donald Trump should write a novel to at least give him the chance to deliver a bit of payback for this release by Hillary Clinton
Samuel Beckett
A prize-winning old fraud
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
