Paul Dean
Paul Dean is a freelance critic living in Oxford
A sharp and shrewd look at Lawrence
A dialectical mind, Lawrence is modern in his resistance to labels
Bookshops remaindered
The second-hand book trade has lost much of its romance and charm, not to mention eccentric establishments and their owners
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
