Results for "philip larkin"
The real Amis?
X.Trapnel on the book world’s latest guessing game
Parky’s great river of song
Michael Henderson on the old-fashioned music that the BBC doesn’t want us to hear any longer
Is grammar elitist?
The soft bigotry of low expectations
Keeping in tune with the Times
Radio Times has become the mouthpiece of the BBC’s re-education unit
Lost in the Moral Maze
What is kindness, and is it the highest of virtues?
The Queen’s Jubilee Book List: why did they bother?
The choices show a lack of levity, imagination and courage
London, Burning: ‘A page-turning delight’
For his eighth novel, Anthony Quinn continues his noble tradition of producing a thumping good read
In praise of the Midlands
The Midlands are hurried through, unappreciated on the way to somewhere else
Leading the good life
Peter Ainsworth 1956-2021
A gross dereliction of duty
The British Army’s ammunition stockpile would only last a week of war
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it