Who are the household names now?
Cultural fragmentation has led to a decline in shared knowledge
The long-gone queens of Grub St
In the good old days, powerful publicity directors could guarantee coverage for books
How we devalue the Book
Literary culture is under threat from quarters meant to celebrate and promote it
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard
Just show me the money
A body that collects authors’ revenues is going off-book and asking about their gender
New life for a dying trade
The book world is on its last legs. So how we can bring it back from the dead?
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
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 lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo