Arty Types
The Committee of the Edwin Savage Society
What arouses such fascination in this obscure literary figure?
Delilah Sampson: Conceptual artist
Spectacular fraud, beguiling hippy or both?
Mark Scrivener: Literary freelancer
Cometh the 200,000-word Serbian novel, cometh the man
Jack Tagg: Beacon of provincial culture
An eccentric force for cultural good
Freddie Simmons
An author who turned failure into success
Gretchen Bellamy: Kindly Reviewer
Is there a book she doesn’t like?
Danny Lestrange: Eternal Columnist
From the immaturity of young adulthood to the immaturity of old age
Amanda Scrimgeour: Glamour hound
Some people are born to rake over the coals of ancient scandals
Fenella Jeavons: Sponsorship Facilitator
Milking the Philistines — someone’s got to do it
Professor Barry Mole: Scholarly Obsessive
Some things should stay buried
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
