Sacred Cows
The Pan Book of Horror Stories: top-drawer gore
Their lurid covers were catnip to bloodthirsty, impressionable teenagers
Michael Powell: an auteur who loved to work with others
In our age of the Saw torture-porn franchise, Peeping Tom still has the capacity to disturb
BC/AD
The dating system invented by Tiny Dennis
Film novelisations
On the ladder of literature, film novelisation was once considered above only pornography
MOR
Te sell-outs who always sell out
Simon Gray: seriously funny artist of angst
An author of seriously funny plays
Stanley Baldwin, unfairly vilified pragmatist
A leader of great personal qualities
Carry Ons: Phwoar! What a lovely set of hits
Grim, funny glimpses of a Britain in decline
Martin Scorsese: rinse and repeat self-indulgence
The director of Goodfellas has debased his talent
Harold Pinter: from bad to verse
The playwright will not be remembered for his poetry
13 Years Later
Who could be inspired by this zombie conservatism?
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Diversity is not our strength
The Khan Review reveals a society needlessly splintered along ethno-religious lines
Why Britain needs Popular Conservatism
The Conservative Party has not fulfilled the promise of Brexit or overcome the legacy of Blair
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
Campus confidential
Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
