Writing outside the box
Elena Ferrante’s essay collection is an exploration of the delights and constraints of form
Will the real Elena Ferrante please sit down?
It is her words and voice, not her purported identity, that matter to her fans
Woolf: heart or brain?
Unfettered praise of Virginia Woolf as a “liberated writer” has paved the way for an inexplicably popular type of bad writing
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s intellectual journey from Peterhouse, to a London college full of left-wing firebrands, from sophisticated intellectual soirées in Holland Park to a “bohemian blur” in Essex and a squalid Fleet Street pub
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
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
