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Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
British universities have a China problem
The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets