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
Most Read
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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state