Literary Review
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone