Malcolm Forbes
Malcolm Forbes is a freelance writer based in Edinburgh. He has written for the Economist, the TLS and the Wall Street Journal.
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
On and off the road
Jack Kerouac’s reputation should rest on his whole oeuvre — not just his most famous novel
Joseph Roth’s golden twenties
When Hitler came to power, the bubble burst
The other Elizabeth Taylor
Discover “one of the finest novelists of her and our time.”
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism