The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Publishing skewered — in 1939
Anthony Powells’s pre-war novel is still the more reliable guide to the book business
Spare me your “Books of the Year”
Or, how to come across as a person of taste and refinement in the annual back-slapping fest
Time to start a new chapter
The rapid decline of reading should set alarm bells ringing at the Ministry of Education
Nicola’s novel? Just say no
There are far worse celebrity writers than Nicola Sturgeon — that doesn’t make her a novelist
Are we really “post-literate” now?
Literary culture has never been secure from the philistines, but better books need publicity
A crisis of sex and money
The publishing economic model is broken whilst male authors are shunned
My advice to young writers
You are hoping for a successful career, but it’s going to take more than just the work
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.