Show me the money
Why do authors so often have such difficulty extracting the fees they are owed?
Bring back plain English
Most literary criticism is don addressing don, in a style designed to exclude ordinary people
The new establishment
Who will subvert today’s anti-establishment?
A farewell to Carmen
Why will there be no more Carmen Callils?
First find your clique …
Whatever one’s attachment to noble causes, it’s more fun to write for the right-wing press
No country for old men
Publishers get rid of talented editors whose worn faces don’t fit their youth-focused world
A cautionary tale
The lot of the writer today is one of insecurity, wounded pride and dwindling returns
The fame game
Why has talking about books become the preserve of know-nothing celebrities?
Why we need a new movement
The timid world of BritLit needs to be shaken up by a mutinous new clique of writers
Time for us all to grow up
Why is the modern British novel so terribly earnest and irrepressibly juvenile?
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
Hero of the hour
Giles Watling asked the question that was on nobody’s lips, as he rushed to the Prime Minister’s rescue
We are the cultural Norns
Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
Why we should question the charge of “Islamophobia”
Valid criticism of beliefs and behaviour should not be equated with hateful bigotry
The problem with puberty blockers
Ministers must step in to prevent the NHS from experimenting on children
The case for more royals
This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy
Why are we ignoring the slaughter in Sudan?
There is no excuse for indifference when we pay such close attention to other wars
