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Laughing laureate of Western decline

Michel Houellebecq’s prescient, mocking critiques of our debased modern world

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