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My advice to young writers
You are hoping for a successful career, but it’s going to take more than just the work
Blowing with the wind
This humble character actor pledges unwavering allegiance to whatever comes next
America should avoid the worst in Gaza
Donald Trump should abandon his benefactor and caretaker ideas for Gaza
It’s time to end the cruelty of caged chickens and pigs
Only free-range meat should be on the table
A Tube train to nowhere
Public-spirited activism can obscure a crisis in state legitimacy
In defence of the Lake District
The rewilding fad has been polluted by misanthropy
Britain’s recurring nightmare
Starmer is caught in the same mud that has swallowed every government of the last decade
Marriage blues
Don’t worry, Rosie, the divorces will start soon
Might this win the Booker?
Page-turning, socially intriguing and melodramatic to the point of campness
Death ad nauseam
Call Kim if you want to die. You’ll get a free Parker pen just for enquiring
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off