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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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)