Against literary safetyism
Writing, and reading, is about taking risks
Why does reading matter?
Books are not just a means to a morally superior end
Charlotte Brontë’s warning to women
Jane Eyre offers a disturbing portrait of relationships between the sexes
What have galleries got against British art?
Our curators are embarrassed by our own cultural treasures
“I’m afraid the news is not good …”
Our confidence in doctor diagnosis is sadly misplaced
Queering the kids’ section
Why are libraries putting a trans memoir alongside children’s books?
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
How I came to live in Looking-Glass House
How it feels to be exiled over political disagreement
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
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
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself