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.”
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Patchett is as good as she needs to be
Whistler by Ann Patchett; The Smiths: A Novella by Michael
Bracewell; Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Cringing at the cliffedge
How British satire, and British politics, became painfully unfunny