Kit Kowol
Dr. Kit Kowol is a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London. His book Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism and the Second World War is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Scum of Britain, unite!
Enterprising politicians can use insults to their own advantage
Rolling back into town
The world’s greatest band return to Liverpool — do they still have it?
Doubling down on a fraud
Recalling the murky role played by civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton in a notorious faked abduction case
Zut alors! Ten Per Cent is no Call My Agent
The remake of the French original is rather merde
Publish and be cancelled
Unreadable and insufferable woke academics are boycotting the publishers that grudgingly print their inane work
Prize-winner reprises and rediscovered tales
From Young Mungo to The Candy House: three new novels to read this month
Gustav Mahler: 4th symphony (Pentatone)
A new recording of Mahler’s smallest symphony is “indispensable” to connoisseurs of his music
I spy a new clampdown
Will new laws to combat foreign espionage inhibit public interest journalism?
Children’s mental health crisis
Using our kids to virtue signal adult politics fuels anxiety and depression
The wrong kind of victim
Today’s victimhood narratives don’t make space for the most vulnerable