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Mr (or Mrs) 15 per cent
The best agents are unobtrusive and make sure attention is focused on their writers
A class act?
Polly Toynbee’s memoirs test the reader’s patience
Justification by merit alone?
The American Dream is a national theology foundered on the rocks of race and meritocracy
Jumping to conclusions, twice
Morality matters as well as the law
Those golden years
Ultimately it’s the music that brings to each of us our personal Bowie
Cops, guns and judges
What the Supreme Court’s ruling on firearms officers means
Sunak drifts towards irrelevance
The PM seems to have no ambitions beyond not being Liz or Boris
A movement to where?
What, if anything, is “right-wing” art?
Travel and terror — trains in World War Two
From the Western Front to the Holocaust
Out of the Ashes (w/ Nick Timothy)
Will England triumph in 2023?
Letters August-September
To paraphrase the Jeremy Corbyn defence, were the Tory Right present but not involved?
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Devilishly good
Liszt: Faust Symphony (Bis)
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
The UK’s war on free speech
Street violence is being met with restrictions on online speech by a Labour government desperate to clamp down on opinion
