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.”
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
The Scullionbait Awards for Reporting Merit
Articles with no opposing quotes, criticism, or trace of so-called “balance”
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
Labour’s inaction on religious persecution
The Freedom of Religion or Belief brief is simply being ignored by the government
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
The blessings on our doorsteps
It is all too easy to forget the astonishing cultural wealth that lies close to hand in our medieval parish churches
