The Secret Author
The Secret Author is a former Professor of English and Creative Writing at a leading British university
Who holds the power?
Literary reputations are made and broken by a self-appointed clique of bien pensant liberal intellectuals
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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
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Why Ed Miliband can’t change course
He would have to abandon his self-appointed role as an agent of progress
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
