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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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
