Arty Types
Graham Topman: festival organiser
Roll up, roll up, it’s time for another festival of arts, ideas and Graham (mostly Graham)
Harriet Pester: Bookworld PR
Alas, not everything is plain sailing in the world of book-trade PR
Gregory Snaith: Little Magazine Editor
Only Gregory seemed prepared to upset the applecart
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
The Committee of the Edwin Savage Society
What arouses such fascination in this obscure literary figure?
Delilah Sampson: Conceptual artist
Spectacular fraud, beguiling hippy or both?
Mairead McSweeney
“Irish” novelist
Mark Scrivener: Literary freelancer
Cometh the 200,000-word Serbian novel, cometh the man
Pushing the boundaries
The map of the world is likely to be redrawn, thanks to the decline of post war Pax Americana, an expansionist Russia and China, and the push for ethnic sovereignty
C. L. R. James and the majesty of cricket
The West Indian writer and historian knew that cricket is far more than merely a sport
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
Stop pampering the left’s attack dog
Hope not Hate are not a reliable judge of what constitutes dangerous extremism
What the Conservatives can learn from Germany
The Tories should have a clean break with their past and rebuild
Double Double
A man motivated by the pinnacle or nothing at all
In defence of emotional voting
We cannot expect voters to think in cold rational terms
“Nympho” rides again
Mental housemistresses and banners displaying children in boaters
The thorn in Starmer’s side
Why does Rosie Duffield scare the Labour leadership?
Going on a Truss hunt
We’re not scared — but Conservative MPs should be
