Columns
Alice in blunderland
The V&A reckons Alice in Wonderland is a self-help manual in the sex-war rather than the daydreams of an old Oxford perv
Power without pain
Social media “platforms” such as Twitter and Facebook plainly are publishers.
They should be held to account as such
World Class
On a phrase used by people with brains of tinsel
Duchess of Grub St.
I’m delighted that Meghan Markle has decided to stop causing controversy and embark on the more sedate pursuit of a literary career
The unexpected Brexit bonus
Britain’s vaccination success has saved lives and will boost economic output by billions
Independent minds
Small local publishers are putting out the brightest and best new work
Preaching to the choir
The Church will soon hit a Hartlepool moment, when people who feel politically unwelcome go elsewhere
China wolf bait
Chinese propaganda plays on the manifest faultlines of American society
No babies, no more Nazis
If we introduce selective breeding to weed out the problematic, there would be no more Nazis
Call the junk-monger
The trashy Downing Street makeover is a criminal act of hideous uglification