Features
Goodbye to the Blonds
The generation of idiosyncratic proprietors who changed the face of the British book industry
Rogue male
Scoundrel, liar, cheat and toady, George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman is a creation of genius and a bracing antidote to our timid age
When is a rape not a rape?
The “sex by deception” law must stay to protect women from trans predators
Scare talk on steroids
The Democrats’ hyperbolic rhetoric about the return of Jim Crow laws risks derailing their voting rights legislation
Who runs Cambridge?
How truth-seeking dons are organised and fighting back against social justice academics
The YA boo gang
Young Adult fiction has become cancel culture’s savage front line
Mrs May: My part in her downfall
The battle to secure a clean Brexit was won only after Brexiteers secretly obtained a copy of the 1922 Committee rules
Adapt and survive
Tim Abrahams says fans of Modernism should accept sensitive redevelopment
David Hockney: An oyster without grit
An oyster without grit
Putting women last
Anti-carceral activists want to shut prisons, but ignore sexual offenders
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
