The real Amis?
X.Trapnel on the book world’s latest guessing game
Tom’s ghostly debut
X.Trapnel on the latest publishing politics
Wolf bites back
X.Trapnel on the latest literary feuds and fancies
Shed and buried
X.Trapnel on cakes, fakes and stocking fillers
Booker prize chumps
The inside line on the book world
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park