Their voters expected them to cut taxes and immigration — they did the opposite

Don’t pretend that feminists are being “radical” for no reason

His disturbing debut, The Wasp Factory, is being reissued this year

The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny

Ed Davey grows more cheerful the sadder Rishi Sunak gets

Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions

As populism advances on both sides of the channel, we ask if it can make the shift from insurgent movement to governing project

The instinct towards appeasing “sensitivity” would stifle the creative impulse

How a cocky petrolhead found his soul

Women face grim choices in the forthcoming election