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Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Is Leicester’s decision to scrap medieval literature the end for serious literary study?
What is being proposed by the university represents the closing down of intellectual horizons and the deliberate vandalism of a highly respected English department
Tales of helping and helplessness
This selection of new fiction is marked by both novelty and tradition
Snaps, crackles and Pop Art
Things you didn’t know you were interested in — until someone wrote a good book about them
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The enduring power of brief encounters
A trio of novels that are connected by their surprising manner of finding their way to us
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Forty-five years of excellence
John Self lauds a writer who has ended up outshining all of his peers
The demise of the second-hand bookshop
Why Oxfam bookshops, as tremendous as they are, may be the end of the second-hand bookseller
Cheques and balances
John Self says that while writing has always been seen as a vocation, the characters many authors care most about are the ones printed on their royalty statements
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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
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The revolution will be half-empty
Britain’s answer to America’s biggest conservative gathering offered empty seats, familiar grievances and a vision of the country that exists largely in the imagination.
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people