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.”
The Conservatives deserve credit on sex and gender
They were slow to respond to institutional capture — but they did respond
Populism on the march
As populism advances on both sides of the channel, we ask if it can make the shift from insurgent movement to governing project
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
Nightmare on Starmer Street?
Bigger government is coming — but there is no avoiding it
How ideology threatens to corrupt science
Ideological censorship in science is antithetical to its purpose and its methods
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Britain must get real on foreign policy
Dim clichés and childish chest-beating are not going to help us
The Conservative immigration betrayal
The Tories have delivered immigration on an absolutely unprecedented scale