A plague of words
Who will write the Great Novel of the Coronavirus?
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
The darkness of assisted dying
The desire to end terrible pain is understandable — but the dangers are severe
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
