Artillery Row
The media won’t protect your freedom
Why was the case of Isabel Vaughan-Spruce ignored?
A Christmas plea for pen and ink
In praise of the small features of civilisation
Labour’s crime plans need more work
Limp idealism has been mixed up with solutions
Murders for the New Year
A dark start to 2023
New Year’s writing resolutions
What I will try to improve in 2023
The raw truth about legal crowdfunding
Don’t waste money on censorious causes with no legal case
Jiving in the ruins
This dazzling album features young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin
Creativity and chaos
Writers with biographies to match their books
The Zelensky dilemma
Rhetoric will not end the war
Oil, art and the perils of patronage
Art patrons have always been on the wrong side of history
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
The cowards, the pretenders and the woman-haters
Awkwardness is no excuse for not supporting the gender-critical cause
Is Britain a Christian country?
The UK has an established religion alright — the worship of the self
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
